On 15/7/17 13:00, Paul Fox wrote:
Bzzzz wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:56:19 -0400
> Paul Fox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > i confess i haven't been following this thread in all its gory detail,
>
> The BackupPC god absolves you (although, it is the BPC v.3x god, so
> you'll need to upgrade the confessionnal if you want to also be absolved
> by the v.4.x one.)
:-)
> > but i suspect that many folks do their backups onto a separately
> > mounted disk. if you do that, then adding "--one-file-system" to the
> > rsync args takes care of it: you can back up from '/', but only the
> > root filesystem will be backed up. any other filesystems on that
> > machine will also need to be backed up as separate shares, of course.
>
> But this way, you still backup unwanted directories, such as /tmp, /dev,
> /proc, etc.
> Starting on the disk root and excluding these allows for a tight control
> over what you want and the rest, providing you need almost the whole
> system to be saved for whatever reason.
i didn't say i don't also have some excludes. i exclude /proc and
/sys. /dev is a separate filesystem. /tmp, believe it or not, i do
back up, to help with the morning-after regret of having lost a file i
thought i didn't need. i think we're ending up in the same place -- i
just need to specifically include mounted filesystems (as separate
share), which is how i prefer it.
Actually, I think you will find that /proc, /dev, /sys, etc are actually
different filesystems, and so will automatically be excluded by
--one-file-system.
Regards,
Adam
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