[BC] Partial recovery

[Harold Hallikainen]

>
>  For me, rsync is a daily thing, so the "bare metal" is unnecessary.
>

rsync just copies over the files, though, and not the structure of the
drive (partition tables, etc.). If you lose a drive and have only an rsync
backup, it seems that you'd have to install the OS on the new drive, then
use rsync to copy everything back. With the bare metal backup (drive
image), I can get back to my last backup with no installs. Just copy the
image back. g4l does, however, require that the system be offline so the
disk is not changing on us as we make the image. That's why I only do it
once a month overnight. As I mentioned, I do rsync about weekly. I'll
probably do it more frequently once I get my backup server reconfigured
(online server is now running Fedora 9, backup is Fedora 4. I need to move
both to Fedora 10 some time, which I am running on my laptop).

I appreciate the expertise of this group! I'm always learning something!

Harold

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