Hi Damian, by the way rsnapshot is a more sophisticated tool to back up your root file system. it is based on rsync, but the bright idea behind is that it creates a history (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly) with copying the hole system only one time.
Maybe this is what you preferably want. Kind regards, der Max damian schrieb: > ... using rsync. > > Hello, > > Finally I got a (less than perfect but) functional gentoo installation > and I would like to backup my root directory to an external > hard-drive. But I have a doubt regarding the options to be passed to > rsync. I think this command should perform what I want: > rsync -a --delete --relative --exclude '/home' / /mnt/wd-backups/ > > But I would like to ask you if this is correct. > > Best regards, > Damian. > -- Maximilian Bräutigam www.chemie.uni-jena.de/jcf
