Re: rsync, dd (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] query re. LO crashing ...)

       Ok, now that that's clear as mud  ;-)

          anyone care for a piece of Mississippi Mud  ;-)



On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> wrote:

On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Tom Davies 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.
>
> kind of like with LO....
>
> anyway, there are Windows versions.
>
>  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.
>
> in my experience Windows7 puts some kind of 'metadata' file at some exact
> location in the middle or towards the end of the 'boot' partition; it
> screws up if it doesn't find it exactly where it expects it. thus one has
> to be cautious about resizing a Windows partition with non-Windows software.
>
>  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.
>
> it's easier just to google it (I always forget the syntax); lot of useful
> pages but perhaps this is a start <http://wiki.eeeuser.com/**
> backup_restore <http://wiki.eeeuser.com/backup_restore>>.
>
> the thing about dd is that it is _exact_ so suppose you have 30g on a 100g
> partition; dd will copy all 110g including 'empty' space. this also means
> you cannot restore to a partition that is smaller than 100g.
>
> this is good for that Windows 7 issue since everything is exactly in
> place. I'd be more inclined to shrink that partition using Windows, thus
> avoiding the metadata problem, and then back up, etc.
>
>  Regards from
> > Tom :)
>
> F.
>
>
> > > 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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