On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 2:55 AM Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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
Hi Andrei, thanks for the tip!
