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#1 2008-11-03 21:49:22

keerthi
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Registered: 2007-11-18
Posts: 95

Restoring from ext3 to jfs

Currently my backups are in an external USB drive formatted as ext3. I use rsync (with -a switch) to sync my complete root partition to a backup (/media/backup) folder on the drive. My root partition is also ext3.

I'm planning to reformat my root partition to jfs and restore the files (reverse rsync) from /media/backup to /. And then, change the mount options & type in /etc/fstab to that applicable for jfs.

Will this work? When restoring from ext3 to jfs, will rsync restore permissions and timestamps of the files preserved in the backup? Is there anything else I should be concerned about?

Thanks.

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#2 2008-11-03 22:19:53

FreakGuard
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Registered: 2008-04-27
Posts: 103

Re: Restoring from ext3 to jfs

Just use a Live-System ^^
-a includes -p (preserve permissions)
timestamps are kept by default (afaik)

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