how to restore a guest OS from an rsync backup

[Karl Larsen]

On 09/29/2010 04:19 AM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> I took a backup of all the directories in an lvm.
> This lvm which I am referring to above was having a Guest Operating System
> the entire backup from the top most directory / is in a folder in a
> USB hard disk.
> Swap space I have not taken any backup.
> So is there a way I can restore the Guest OS from this backup on  USB
> bard disk which is on LAN at a remote location.
> If yes then give me a link to it.
>
>    
     On my backup which is a manual rsync backup, I also manually 
restore using cp -a which does about what rsync does back to another, or 
the same partition. This works fine for several years.

73 Karl


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