... using rsync.
Hello,
Finally I got a (less than perfect but) functional gentoo installation
and I would like to backup my root directory to an external
hard-drive. But I have a doubt regarding the options to be passed to
rsync. I think this command should perform what I want:
rsync -a
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:24:23 +0100, damian wrote:
rsync -a --delete --relative --exclude '/home' / /mnt/wd-backups/
That will also backup virtual filesystems like /proc, /dev and/sys. Add
the -x option to avoid this.
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:24:23 +0100, damian wrote:
rsync -a --delete --relative --exclude '/home' / /mnt/wd-backups/
That will also backup virtual filesystems like /proc, /dev and/sys. Add
the -x option to avoid
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:11:28 +0100, damian wrote:
That will also backup virtual filesystems like /proc, /dev and/sys.
Add the -x option to avoid this.
OK, so the command should be
rsync -ax --delete --relative --exclude '/home' / /mnt/wd-backups/
?
Yes, unless /home is on a
on 12/14/2008 11:11 PM damian wrote the following:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:24:23 +0100, damian wrote:
rsync -a --delete --relative --exclude '/home' / /mnt/wd-backups/
That will also backup virtual
Hi Damian,
by the way rsnapshot is a more sophisticated tool to back up your root
file system. it is based on rsync, but the bright idea behind is that it
creates a history (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly) with copying the hole
system only one time.
Maybe this is what you preferably want.
Kind
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