I've set up an initial use of rsync for making a mirror-type backup and
I'd like some advice to improve it, please.
1. Does rsync verify the copies it makes?
2. What non-user directories should I exclude? My initial command is:
sudo rsync -azvv --delete --exclude=/tmp/
--exclude=/home/john/Downloads/ --exclude=/home/john/GM2
--exclude=/home/shareddocs/Downloads/
--exclude=/home/evelyn/Downloads/ --exclude=proc/ --exclude=dev/
--exclude=mnt/ --exclude=media/ --exclude=sys/ /
'/media/john/Ubuntu Backup/Mirror-backup'
3. How many v's should I use, e.g -azv?
4. I (user john) couldn't copy the .thunderbird subdirectories of user
evelyn. Why not? I ran with sudo and other items copied OK.
Temporarily, I've changed their permissions.
Thanks in advance.
John
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