What backup software?

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Mon Aug 11 14:16:06 UTC 2008


Marcin ‘Qrczak’ Kowalczyk wrote:
> 2008/8/11 Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>:
>
>   
>> rsync -vaH --exclude '/proc' --exclude 'sys'  --exclude '/mnt' --exclude
>> '/media' /. /media/disk
>>
>> A problem with rsync is every ' is critical.
>>     
>
> They are not. For the shell '/proc' and /proc are the same, rsync sees
> the same argument in either case. It is not able to distinguish them
> even if it wanted to.
>
>   
Maybe not for you, but it didn't work for me until I used ''. I can fool 
around but what I have now works, and it is backed up.

Karl


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