Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup problems (FC4 -> VFAT)

[Wiebe Cazemier]

Bob McKay wrote:
> I'm not certain; I don't have a non-FAT32 filesystem to backup to (I
> guess I could use spare space in the same volume, if rdiff-backup
> isn't going to be confused by that - in fact, the main disk needs to
> be repartitioned, which would solve that problem, but I'm not game to
> do that until I have it properly backed up - catch 22.

rdiff-backup won't mind if you backup to the same partition, it has no reason 
to. Just make some dir in /tmp and backup /bin to it or something. Shouldn't 
even take much space. If that goes well, then the problem is backing up to FAT32.

BTW, I don't know why I didn't mention this earlier, but FAT32 is a very 
unreliable filesystem. I would use ext3 or reiser on your backup disk/partition. 
At least use something with journaling.

> Thanks for all the excellent advice - far more than the question I was
> originally asking, and all valuable

No problem :) Just making sure you don't mess up your system.