From: vallor@vallor.earth   
      
   At Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:57:08 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro    
   ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:58:05 -0500, Paul wrote:   
   >   
   > > On Thu, 12/18/2025 7:49 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> Never bothered with image copies. The files are the important thing.   
   > >>   
   > > While updating Devuan, it was only taking 1 minute 30 seconds to make   
   > > safety copies of the disk. It's pretty easy to do. They're compressed   
   > > to save space.   
   >   
   > Wonderful. So how do you do selective restores?   
      
   Is it a trick question?   
      
   Mount the image file as a loopback device (with a possible   
   offset to the partition within the image), and then use rsync.   
      
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