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i am not a subscriber but i am a new user.

i tried to mirror to the mount point of a partition, but rdiff-backup
balks at the lost+found file there. if i use --force, then the
original's lost+found gets put there. if i exclude lost+found, then
it disappears.

so it is not easy to mirror to a partition, which i wanted to do for
easy bootability.

then i considered how to boot from a subdir in linux, and i do not
know how to do that.

i think that some mention of these issues in the rdiff-backup
documentation would be splendid.

thanks.

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t takahashi wrote:
i am not a subscriber but i am a new user.

i tried to mirror to the mount point of a partition, but rdiff-backup
balks at the lost+found file there. if i use --force, then the
original's lost+found gets put there. if i exclude lost+found, then
it disappears.

so it is not easy to mirror to a partition, which i wanted to do for
easy bootability.

\\

Hi,
I think you want rsync - rdiff-backup doesn't work the way you want I
don't think. Its notion of destination is a descreet repository
(directory) over which is has full control. Booting a machine off an
rdiff-backup respository would be asking for trouble. Rsync doesn't look
after the destination nearly as well.

thanks

dave

thanks for your reply.

i think all i would need is a grub floppy and a new option --ignore.

imho it should be possible to neither include nor exclude a pathname.


On 9/28/05, Dave Kempe <dave < at > solutionsfirst.com.au> wrote:
t takahashi wrote:
i am not a subscriber but i am a new user.

i tried to mirror to the mount point of a partition, but rdiff-backup
balks at the lost+found file there. if i use --force, then the
original's lost+found gets put there. if i exclude lost+found, then
it disappears.

so it is not easy to mirror to a partition, which i wanted to do for
easy bootability.

\\

Hi,
I think you want rsync - rdiff-backup doesn't work the way you want I
don't think. Its notion of destination is a descreet repository
(directory) over which is has full control. Booting a machine off an
rdiff-backup respository would be asking for trouble. Rsync doesn't look
after the destination nearly as well.

thanks

dave



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