Just out of curiosity, do you actually put anything in /usr that you need to back up? Since this is ubuntu, pretty much everything in that folder is created by installed packages, there's no real need to back it up since everything can be reinstalled from the repository. The benefits of backing up /usr usually don't outweigh the risks, unless you are manually installing software or using it for other purposes.
Nothing will complain about backing up /usr, however if in the future you attempt to restore your OS using a backed up copy of those files it could seriously break your install. You just end up using a huge amount of disk space without any benefit or gain. On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 3:53 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:41:58 -0800 > John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo: > > >I have created Rsync_root_excludes.txt with the following: > > > >#Rsync_root_excludes > >/cdrom > >/dev > >/export > >/home/jjj/** > >/lost+found > >/media > >/mnt > >/proc > >/run > >/snap > >/tmp > > I finally just ran the rsync script and all worked as expected except > for the /home/jjj/** line. > > The problem was that there were half a dozen folders in /home besides > the crucial jjj folder, plus half a dozen files. I didn't know what > any of them were for, so I wanted to keep them just in case. And I'm the > only user, so there were no other user folders besides jjj to worry > about. The exclude-from line in the rsync command correctly found the > excludes file and excluded all the above folders, except that it backed > up the /home folder, but left it completely empty - it failed to back up > the few files and folders that I wanted to save. > > Apparently I didn't get the syntax of that line right, but I solved the > problem another way. I just sudo-su-ed in the terminal and went to the > home folder, then looked in all the folders. They were all empty, so I > just nuked them. The files also all turned out to be worthless, so I > deleted all of them as well, with the exception of one file: > pubring.gpg with a file date of 12/15/2019. Apparently this has > something to do with Gnu Privacy Guard. I don't remember ever > installing it, and I don't know if I need it, but I left it anyway. Its > file date is the day when I copied 18.04 from my old computer to the new > one. It won't get backed up, but I can live with one missing file > of questionable value. > > The script also correctly appended the rsync exit data to the one log > file that I created. The Home script root cron job runs at 3am, the > Root script runs at 4am, and I have created a new job in my own crontab > to open a popup with gxmessage at 5am. When I sit down at the computer > tomorrow morning I should see a popup on the screen with two lines, one > for /home and one for /. > > I am crossing my fingers. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
