>> I did the very same recently when reformatting my system partition for >> a new FS. Beware though that after this command you still need to >> create some device files in /dev for udev to work properly, because >> they were excluded. I think it was null and console, but I'm not sure. > > mount --bind / /mnt/root > rsync -avx /mnt/root user@remote.server:/backup/
True, this takes care of the /dev folder problem, but there's a downside: if you have for example /var on a different partition, it won't get backup up. This goes for mount --bind and also for rsync -x
