Backing up a stand alone system to a usb drive with rsync

2010-09-08 Thread Chris
I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive. I've tried dd however since it copies over everything, even empty space it didn't seem very practical since for instance root only has 10GiB out of 70 use

Re: --delete-during acts like --delete-before

2010-09-08 Thread Michal Soltys
On 10-09-09 01:07, Craig Bell wrote: Hello, I use rsync v3.0.7 with "--delete-during", but it appears to act more like "--delete-before". I've checked the docs and list archives, but I am still discovering some of the subtleties of rsync, and I can't see where I'm going wrong. There's an

--delete-during acts like --delete-before

2010-09-08 Thread Craig Bell
Hello, I use rsync v3.0.7 with "--delete-during", but it appears to act more like "--delete-before". I've checked the docs and list archives, but I am still discovering some of the subtleties of rsync, and I can't see where I'm going wrong. There's an example of my issue below... can anybod