<quote who="david"> >> They're entirely virtual filesystems and don't need to be backed up at >> all. In general, you should use the -x (or --one-file-system) parameter >> with rsync when you're backing up -- saves backing up (and even reading) >> useless crap like this. > > So *that's* what -x means ;-) > > > I've been doing: > > # rsync -a --exclude=/media/backupdrive / /media/backupdrive > > Without --exclude I get some "interesting" results ;-) > > Does the -x switch solve this problem too? It might sound naive, but I > understood the file system to be everything below /
Each mount point exposes a filesystem, so really you have many filesystems below / ... the obviously different ones like /proc and /sys, but also the disk you mounted for backup, /home if you have that on a different disk... So yes, rsync -ax / /media/backupdrive/ will do the right thing unless you have data mounted elsewhere which you want backed up. Always match slashes with rsync source/destination by the way. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2010: Wellington, NZ http://www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz/ "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mahatma Gandhi -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
