rsync is bad...now fixed

[Les Mikesell]

Res wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 
>>    Hi Les, this message is from my Ubuntu that was just backed up with
>> rsync. The problem I learned is you must get a NEW uuid made AFTER you
>> back up or the backup will not boot :-)
>>
>>    The rsync I used was from Rex and it worked fine after I fixed it.
>> The new uuid was all I had to do to get it working.
>>
>> Here is what I used:
>> rsync -vaH --exclude '/proc' --exclude 'sys' --exclude 'home' --exclude
>> '/mnt' /. /mnt
>>
>> I call this with a sudo so it is a root privledge.
>>
>> Rex had a Z in his string but my rsync upchucked with that :-)
> 
> I had a 'z' (lower case) all that implies is use compression, if you cant 
> use compression you have bigger problems :)
> 
> PS its Res not Rex, but close enough :P

There's not much point in using compression when the source and 
destination are on the same machine.

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   Les Mikesell
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