Re: [SLUG] Partitioning (Again?!)

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 18:08:53 EDT


On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 10:56:55AM -0400, Derek Glidden wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 23:04, Paul Braman wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > >
> > > Now, the question is, given _this_ situation, are there any
> > > liabilities to the one-partition-rsync'd-to-a-second-drive scenario?
>
> (I'm specifically ignoring the partitioning question because nobody has
> ever agreed with the way I like to partition drives.)
>
> If the process is automated and something happens in the middle of the
> night after you've left the machine but before the rsync happens, you
> lose everything.
>

How's that? The worst that could happen would be that I'd lose that
day's modifications. Rsync only touches files that have changed. If I
lose a single day's mods, I can reconstruct them. And for that matter,
something could happen in the middle of a manual rsync, too. Right?

Paul



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