> I wanted to create the empty directories on the backup i.e. run, dev, also
Add something like this to the exclude-list: /dev/* /var/run/* ... That'll copy the dir itself, but not its contents. > directory links i.e. lib to lib64 I don't fully understand here. You have a '-a' (even a redundant '-l') in the argument list - symlinks should be created on the target location. By the way, your sync cmd seems a bit odd: -l is redundant if -a is specified -C used while syncing a whole / might exclude some needed stuff -H is what you usually want while syncing a whole / --exclude items without any '/' might be dangerous (I suppose you meant to exclude /var/run, /sys, /tmp, /boot etc. and not every file named 'run', 'sys', 'tmp' or 'boot' in the entire filesystem. Your current cmd might 'exclude', for instance, /usr/include/sys, /etc/runlevels/boot, /usr/src/linux*/arch/*/boot and most likely more. Just a note for the case this isn't what you actually want.) -rz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
