Re: duplicating servers - remote backup to HD

2003-12-09 Thread Christian Hammers
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:23:43PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > Sure, here's what I use for taking an image of a system. If you plan > rsync -av --progress --delete-excluded --numeric-ids \ > --exclude=**/cdrom/* \ You delete only the excluded files? What about e.g. mail spool files that

Re: duplicating servers - remote backup to HD

2003-12-09 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:19:59AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: >On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:23:43PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: >> Sure, here's what I use for taking an image of a system. If you plan > >> rsync -av --progress --delete-excluded --numeric-ids \ >> --exclude=**/cdrom/* \ > >

Re: duplicating servers - remote backup to HD

2003-12-09 Thread Christian Hammers
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:23:43PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > Sure, here's what I use for taking an image of a system. If you plan > rsync -av --progress --delete-excluded --numeric-ids \ > --exclude=**/cdrom/* \ You delete only the excluded files? What about e.g. mail spool files that

Re: duplicating servers - remote backup to HD

2003-12-09 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:19:59AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: >On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:23:43PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: >> Sure, here's what I use for taking an image of a system. If you plan > >> rsync -av --progress --delete-excluded --numeric-ids \ >> --exclude=**/cdrom/* \ > >