Nick Smith wrote:
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 11:04 -0500, Nick Smith wrote:

i read up on the man page of rsync and got that this command will backup
my server to another external drive i have:

mail root # rsync -avz / /mnt/backup/

You should at least exclude /sys /proc /dev from the backup

A better alternative might be to use rdiff-backup which will do pretty much what u want including incremental backups and restores...

/Andreas

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