How to rebuild partition table

cfr · 2012-05-21 00:11:20

cp -r won't work if you want to restore everything to a working system. You'll lose too much information. Look up rsync in the wiki - it gives instructions for doing a full system backup.

R00KIE · 2012-05-21 10:49:35

cp -ar should work almost as well as rsync as long as transfers are not interrupted, as with most things it requires proper testing and reading the man pages. But I agree that rsync is more reliable for this purpose.

cfr · 2012-05-23 23:52:16

Oh, right. I'd forgotten cp had an archive option. The OP would definitely need that as well as -r, though.

As you say, rsync is still likely to be more reliable. Plus the wiki has instructions for e.g. excluding stuff which gets regenerated on boot etc. which I believe would be a lot more fiddly with cp. [But I've never used cp for archiving - only rsync, recently, and ditto etc. so I can't speak from experience.]

Last edited by cfr (2012-05-23 23:53:21)

raxbg · 2012-05-24 20:09:56

Thank you for your answers, I will try rsync as soon as I finish the current project I am working on.

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