Re: [libreoffice-users] query re. LO crashing ...

       dd greps the grub  ;-)

       and just as I thought it was safe to go back in the water  ;-)



On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi :)
> If rsync is available on Windows then it might not be so easy to charge
> people so much for apps that do back-ups.  Unless no-one knew about it of
> course.
>
> I tried a back-up utility that looked great until i used it to restore a
> bootable Windows and found the Windows boot-loader was completely lost
> because things were not in exactly the right place.  Someone suggested
> using dd but to grep it through some archiving tool.  I did fix the Windows
> restored drive but by installing Grub2.  Grub2 survived the back-up and
> restore process but it felt like i was cheating because the whole purpose
> was to restore the machine to exactly the way it arrived from the store.
>
> I'm going to ask about grepping a dd through an archiving tool on
> http://www.linuxquestions.org
> to see if they can give me a good idea of how to actually write the
> command.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> > From: Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu>
> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Sent: Tuesday, 4 December 2012, 19:23
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] query re. LO crashing ...
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, anne-ology wrote:
> >
> > >       rsync  ???
> > >
> > >       I think i are sinking fast ...
> > >
> > > sink  vb sinks, sinking, sank ; sunk, sunken
> >
> > you are probably just joshing around but 'sync' has nothing to do with
> 'sink'; one is germanic, the other is greek.
> > 'syn'+'chronos' as in 'synchronize'.
> >
> > sometimes the spelling of words, like the syntax of directory paths,
> matters.
> > (and 'syntax' has nothing to do with 'sin' or 'taxes'!)
> >
> > 'rsync' is a great utility; I assume it's available for Windows but I
> don't know but there's certainly equivalent stuff.
> > F.

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