Killed /home installing Fedora 7 with Ubuntu

[Tom Diehl]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, John Pierce wrote:

>> That was a scary lesson that I learned tonight. I'm burning a backup
>> now, and I'll be learning rsync tonight...
>>
> This is an rsync command that my wife and I both use on our laptops
> everytime we get home to our local network.
>
> /usr/bin/rsync -e ssh -avzp --exclude "/home/eagle1/.ssh" --delete
> /home/eagle1 / /ns2.local.net:/prtdata/

I would suggest using the -n option to rsync to test things before you
run it on a live filesystem. Leaving a / off of the end of a path in rsync
can be disasterous. It has saved my life many times.

Regards,

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