On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:43:32 +0000, Paul Stear wrote: > > I use a script to perform backup to a connected usb harddisk and I > > have noticed that it appears to be writing all files each time > > instead of updating only the changes. I am wondering if rsync has > > changed. I have read the man pages but am not quite sure if I > > understand it fully. This is part of my script:- > > $RSYNC \ > > -Cvalu --delete-during --stats --progress --exclude '*Trash*' > > --exclude '/home/paul/Programs' --exclude 'run' \ > > --exclude 'test' --exclude 'media/' --exclude '/home/paul/video/' > > --exclude 'mnt/' --exclude 'sys' \ > > --exclude 'tmp' --exclude 'joan' --exclude 'backup' --exclude 'proc/' > > --exclude 'log' \ > > --exclude 'boot' --exclude 'dev/' --exclude 'lost+found' \ > > / /mnt/external/MusicBackup ; > > > > Could someone who is more knowledgeable than me please review the > > above and let me know what changes I need to make. > > First of all, put all your excludes in a file and use --exclude-from > filename, it makes thing much easier to read. > > What filesystem are you using on the target? If it is FAT, you may need > to use --modify-window because of FAT's different timestamping. > > > One other question > > I wanted to create the empty directories on the backup i.e. run, dev, > > also directory links i.e. lib to lib64 > > Use --one-file-system instead of excluding /proc, /sys etc. It saves > adding all those excludes and it creates the mount-points, because that > are on the source filesystem.
Thanks to Neil and Roman, I will try out your amendments tomorrow. Neil, I am using ext2 on the usb backup disk. I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. What do you mean by Use --one-file-system ? I need to just create the empty directories of /proc, sys, /run and any others that are created on start up. Don't I? Thank you both for your interest Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
