Re: Backing up a stand alone system to a usb drive with rsync

[Chris]

On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 13:57 +0300, edac...@gmail.com wrote:
> On 09/09/2010 03:16 AM, Chris wrote:
> > I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var
> > on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive.
> > I've tried dd however since it copies over everything, even empty space
> > it didn't seem very practical since for instance root only has 10GiB out
> > of 70 used. Would rsync be a suitable application to use for this or
> > will it only work over a network?
> >
> > Thank you for any information
> >
> >
> 
> See http://edacval.wikidot.com/backup-whole-system-with-rsync

Thanks again for the link, a couple of questions:

1 - My backup usb drive is mounted in /media/backup, shouldn't cause a
problem correct?

2 - Since my system is spaced across two drives will they both be backed
up or would I require some additional parameters?

Chris
 
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Re: Backing up a stand alone system to a usb drive with rsync

[Chris]

On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 13:57 +0300, edac...@gmail.com wrote:
> On 09/09/2010 03:16 AM, Chris wrote:
> > I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var
> > on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive.
> > I've tried dd however since it copies over everything, even empty space
> > it didn't seem very practical since for instance root only has 10GiB out
> > of 70 used. Would rsync be a suitable application to use for this or
> > will it only work over a network?
> >
> > Thank you for any information
> >
> >
> 
> See http://edacval.wikidot.com/backup-whole-system-with-rsync

Thanks very much for the link, I've printed it and am printing the rsync
man page now. I may have a few more questions if that's ok.

Thanks
Chris

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Re: Backing up a stand alone system to a usb drive with rsync

[Henri Shustak]

> 
>> I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var
>> on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive.
>> I've tried dd however since it copies over everything, even empty space
>> it didn't seem very practical since for instance root only has 10GiB out
>> of 70 used. Would rsync be a suitable application to use for this or
>> will it only work over a network?
> 
> See http://edacval.wikidot.com/backup-whole-system-with-rsync


You may also be interested in Clonezilla : 

One possible way of using both of these tools together would be to create a 
full backup using Clonezilla and then use rsync to frequent backups.


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Re: Backing up a stand alone system to a usb drive with rsync

[edacval]

On 09/09/2010 03:16 AM, Chris wrote:

I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var
on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive.
I've tried dd however since it copies over everything, even empty space
it didn't seem very practical since for instance root only has 10GiB out
of 70 used. Would rsync be a suitable application to use for this or
will it only work over a network?

Thank you for any information




See http://edacval.wikidot.com/backup-whole-system-with-rsync
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Backing up a stand alone system to a usb drive with rsync

[Chris]

I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var
on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive.
I've tried dd however since it copies over everything, even empty space
it didn't seem very practical since for instance root only has 10GiB out
of 70 used. Would rsync be a suitable application to use for this or
will it only work over a network?

Thank you for any information

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