On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 03:02 -0700, GMS S wrote:
Will this command do the job for backup?
rsync -vpa / /home/user/backup
How would I exclude these files below:
/lost+found
/media
/mnt
and others which I do not need.
And what is the compression lever by rsync (using -a option)?
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I would pretty much recommend that you specifically omit /dev and /proc
too.
Save the filter to a text file and make it look something like this (I
like the first one but you might not). + and - symbols should be
obvious.
- ~*
- /lost+found/
+ **/home/user/backup
rsync -vpa --filter='. /path/to/rsync-filter' $source $destination
I didn't think '-a' option indicates compression at all, only
'archive'
and you might want '-u' option for update.
Craig
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