On 9/27/24 8:56 PM, dep via tde-users wrote: > said Greg Madden via tde-users: > | I used rsync to move files around. Flexible, run with a cron job, > Thanks very much. I'm hoping it works with a mounted drive? The problem with using rsync to back up a mounted boot partition is, it's not instant. So while rsync is backing up one part, some other part is probably being changed. So if you're lucky, you might end up with a functional bootable backup, but you'll have some unknown bit(s) of corruption that may or may not be fatal. If you want to get a good bootable backup, you'd have to boot from something else before backing up. Then, if you want it to be bootable should you ever have to restore and use it, fsarchiver would be a better bet than rsync. An image backup with dd would also work, but the boot partition would have to be smaller or equal to the backup location. -- For PGP key, search on the PGP Global Directory. ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
