Questions with rsync

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On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:02 PM, GMS S <gmspro at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Will this command do the job for backup?
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> rsync -vpa / /home/user/backup
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> How would I exclude these files below:
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> /lost+found
> /media
> /mnt
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if you man rsync , you can see two options for you:

            --exclude=PATTERN       exclude files matching PATTERN
            --exclude-from=FILE     read exclude patterns from FILE



> and others which I do not need.
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> And what is the compression lever by rsync (using -a option)?
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