[kwlug-disc] Backup and Recovery in the 21st Century

[Adam Glauser]

Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> The fact that it works on the file system level also has advantages. You
> can restore a partition EXACTLY to what it was before. This means
> timestamps, ownerships, access times, ...etc.

Is the main advantage over using --archive with rsync that the backup 
can reside on a filesystem that does not support all the features of the 
source filesystem?