On 01/17/2015 09:29 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Did you have to re-create any of the excluded directories before it would > boot properly? > > This looks a lot like what I do already, but is not working for me. I'll > check the details. > Kevin, you sent this directly to me, not the list.
I have /home on another partition, so I just mounted that in the new system. I created blank /tmp /dev /proc and /sys. They are populated at boot time. Just match the permissions from the system you're copying from. I have not tried backing up a live system using tar. Just using rsync to copy file by file. A quick google search just brought up this link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/full_system_backup_with_rsync which is very similar to how I did it. -Thom > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:54 AM, Thom Miller <t...@cagroups.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 01/16/2015 01:28 AM, Joel Roth wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 09:32:24PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >>>> I care because I like to have a lot of free space in my partitions, but >> I >>>> hate to use backup time and space on the holes. >>> >>> Hi Kevin, >>> >>> If you copy the whole partition, byte-for-byte, as with the >>> 'dd' command, you copy everything, including the free space. >>> >>> If you copy via the filesystem, e.g. using rsync, you just >>> pay for what you use, and all the files are immediately >>> available. Restoring a file is a matter of >>> copying. >>> >>> ... >>> >>> #!/bin/sh >>> RSYNC="rsync -avx " >>> CMD="$RSYNC \ >>> --exclude /dev \ >>> --exclude /proc \ >>> --exclude /sys \ >>> --exclude /home \ >>> --exclude /tmp \ >>> --exclude /var/cache/apt/archives \ >>> --exclude /var/run \ >>> / /mnt/$1/root" >>> echo $CMD >> /var/log/backup.log >>> >> I can confirm that the above works. I recently used rsync to copy my >> live system to another partition, excluding /dev /proc /sys /tmp and /home. >> >> After setting grub to boot the new partition, it works fine. I'm using >> it now. >> >> -Thom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54baf14a.1020...@cagroups.com
