On Sb, 02 oct 21, 19:56:02, Default User wrote: > > And . . . I make a special point of excluding: > /media > /media/* > /mnt > /mnt/* > > Why? > > Because long ago, when I was just learning to use rsync, I tried to > use it to do a full-system backup. Since nobody told me that /mnt and > /media had to be specifically excluded, rsync did exactly what it was > told to do, recursively backing up everything, filling up an entire > 1Tb hard drive, stopping only when it ran out of room! > > I do not ever want that to happen again. > > Fun fact: > I can use the same exclude list to mirror the same user stuff to a > different backup directory, with obsessive frequency, using rsync: > > sudo rsync -avHx --delete --stats --exclude-from > "/home/debian-user/rsync_exclude_list.txt" /home > /media/debian-user/backup_drive/backups_of_host_home_directory_only
In case of system backups the top-level directories themselves should probably be included because they are needed as mount points. rsync's -x parameter should already take care of excluding the (special) mounts *under* /mnt, /media, /dev, /sys, /run etc. Hope this helps, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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