Jeff Bauer grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 08/31/2013 12:23 PM, David Guntner wrote: >> I've been using it as a sort of backup type of partition, mounted as >> /backup (until I have time to install backuppc and get it all >> configured; I've just been doing an rsync to the drive). Since I was >> backing up *everything*, I suppose there's a possibility that it saw >> /backup/boot/[...] and acted on it, thought that seems an odd behavior >> to me. I'm running the rsync again right now; when it completes I'll >> run update-grub again and see if it mysteriously adds the extra entry >> again. Then we'll know for sure. --Dave > > My backup regime uses "rsync -avz" as its backbone. Anything I don't > want backed up, I address with the "--exclude-from=" option in my backup > script, and the "rsync.exclude" file in my user home dir.
Yea. It was primarily a way to back everything up prior to the squeeze-to-wheezy upgrade as a Just In Case. I've got: > rsync -auv --exclude-from=$HOME/backup-exclude.txt --delete --delete-excluded > / /backup for what I'm doing. I know that "z" compresses, but I thought that it was only useful for when doing a network transfer to compress the data and thus reduce bandwidth. Does it actually result in the output file at the other end being stored in a compressed state? --Dave
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