Questions with rsync

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200906 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 17:25:20 UTC 2009


GMS S <gmspro at yahoo.com> writes:
> Will this command do the job for backup?
>
> rsync -vpa / /home/user/backup
>
> How would I exclude these files below:
>
> /lost+found
> /media
> /mnt

It is always a good idea to throw in an "-x" to these programs and then
list the filesystems you want to backup explicitly.

-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht              Android 1.5 (Cupcake) and Fedora-11




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