On Thursday 29 December 2005 2:24 am, Chinook wrote: > In cloning my system I want to capture everything that is important if I > need to "rollback" to a clone, but I don't want to waste time with data > that is not needed. > > For example, I might exclude anything within /tmp [?], /proc, > /home/<usr>/tmp > but not /dev, /etc, /var, /home (other than <usr>/tmp and known > fluff), /root and /opt. > > Been googling around for more than over generalizations but have not > done so well yet :-) > > Any comments, urls, etc would be appreciated.
Well presuming you are using rsync create a file named something like Exclude_List. Exclude_List contains each directory to be excluded on a separate line. When you call rsync add ` --exclude-from=$exclude_file_name. Here is a link to the script I use to rsync my hardrive to an external usb HD. http://home.insightbb.com/~bmsims1/Backup_Script.html -- W3 vv15h Jo0 4 MeRr`/ (hR157m4s5 & 4 |-|aPpY N3w `/e4R
