Killed /home during install of another distro

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 10:20 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 02:19 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> Modify these scripts appropriately for your needs (especially paths,
> DEST, SOURCES etc), put them into $DEST, and tell cron to run the "rb"
> script as often as you like. Note that the first run will take a while,
> as it has to copy everything. Subsequent runs will be MUCH faster, as
> only altered files will be copied, unaltered files will be hard-linked
> to.

There is also a Perl script called glastree which does the same thing as
these scripts, only in a much more general way.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/glastree/

or use pdumpfs.  There are two Debian packages which look interesting:

pdumpfs and pdumpfs-rsync

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