I usually know acronyms, but what is an OP, especially as I am apparently one? :) I'm getting enamored of rsync to the point where I think that's the backup strategy I'd like to use, with sequential backups of /home to capture user data changes. So now I'm thinking, OK, I rsync / except /proc, I have that on an external disk, my system disk crashes, how quickly can I get a new disk up as my system disk... and that's where I become mildly confused. I imagine that I'll reinstall a minimal F8 system with the boot sector, then rsync the backup directory on the external backup disk back to the system disk, and hopefully all will be well. *But* there are the mysterious boot files... If I mount my old F7 disk for grins sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/f7 I get this stuff ls /mnt/f7 config-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 lost+found config-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 System.map-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 grub System.map-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 initrd-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.img vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 So I imagine there are files, I expect in the boot sector, that are important to backup and restore. So my current questions are: What are those files? How do I back them up? How do I restore them? Does this strategy of restore the boot sector, mount the external disk with the rsync'd system, then rsync back to the new system disk, make sense? Many TIA, Craig -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=227237&topic_id=48792&forum=10#forumpost227237 If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and/or blame craignied@xxxxxxxxxx
