Duh, good catch! I've filled up the root partition that way before too. --Doug
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Douglas Roberts <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Re: backups, I find rsync to the perfect solution for me. Here's an > excerpt > > from one of my backup scripts: > > > > /usr/bin/rsync -vurltD --exclude-from=/home/roberts/.rsync/exclude > > /home/roberts /mnt/backup >>/home/roberts/backup.log 2>&1 > > > > Here's part of mine: > > if mount | grep -s $DEST >/dev/null 2>&1 > then > rsync -ax --delete --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=.gvfs > $SRC/ $DEST/ > else > echo destination $DEST is not mounted > fi > > first thing the original did was fill the root file system by > rsync'ing into a mount point with nothing mounted on it. > > I'm backing up the root these days, too, because it was such a pain to > recover the install state two weeks ago. Now the backup is configured > to replace the laptop drive in the time it takes to swap drives. > > You could always take a MacMini and install Ubuntu on it. Anybody > know in what format TimeMachine stores your stuff? > > -- rec -- > >
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