Backup

[Amaury Pupo Meriño]

Hi Errol,
There are several ways to accomplish what you want to do, but it depends on
which software you are using to make your backups. In my case I prefer to
use rdiff-backup (to be called in a shell script). In my case, to backup
all the contents in my home directory, ignoring configuration files, I do:

rdiff-backup -v 5 --print-statistics --exclude '/home/my_user_name/.*'
/home/my_user_name/
/destination_dir/

with the option --exclude '/home/my_user_name/.*' the backup excludes all
files and directories with names starting with the "." character (by
convention all config files and directories names start with a ".").

Then, my advice, your backup software should have some "exclude" option,
which should allow you to do something equivalent.

Best regards,

Amaury


2016-11-02 14:20 GMT-03:00 Errol Sapir <errol at tzora.co.il>:

> Hi
> I have a very basic question about backup. I want to backup my /home drive
> which is on a separate partition. However I ONLY want to backup data and
> not any setup files or  attachments. The reason for all this is I want to
> set up my /home partition from scratch without kubuntu using previous
> definitions. So I need a way of backing up only data, ALL my data (and of
> course restoring it).
> Is there a way of doing this?
> TIA
> Errol
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