Guest marcuso Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 (edited) Even if i don´t need it yet I am not completely understanding the EFS-Backup/Restore thing. I understand the reason why saving efs makes sense and can help when efs is messed up and I am using linux for a while so i am familiar with dd and tar, but what i don´t fully get is: * What are the advatages of an image or tarball in this context ? Someone wrote tar would also save file-permissions, but shouldn´t an image save everything exactly byte-by-byte ? (saw that Paul was using dd and making an image with an older version of the script for SGSII, but bow changed to tar-ball with the MCR-option for GN. Any reason for this ?) * How to restore img and/or tar - i know how to use dd and tar, but i wonder if restore could/should be done during normal operation or in recovery ? So maybe someone can shed some more light on this topic for me ;-) Thx Marcus Edited January 12, 2012 by marcuso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest marcuso Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 There must be someone who is understanding this and can explain, i hope. Anyone ? .... ;-) Thx BR Marcus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PaulOBrien Posted January 18, 2012 Report Share Posted January 18, 2012 The DD method (while ideal) seemed to have issues with the GN in my testing (failing to create an image), so I switched to tar.gz, simple as that. :) In the event of needing a restore, recovery would be safest. P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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