<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Sans Serif'; font-size:8pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Wednesday 03 June 2009 08:35:50 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:<br>
> On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 03:02 -0700, GMS S wrote:<br>
> > Will this command do the job for backup?<br>
> ><br>
> > rsync -vpa / /home/user/backup<br>
><br>
> Er, isn't this recursive?<br>
><br>
> poc<br>
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I've attached the dirlist and both rsync scripts (the backup and the restore), hope it's helpful.<br>
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