After system didaster how to prepare / save most important data ?
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
Mon May 19 17:25:41 UTC 2008
--- Mike Bird <mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net> wrote:
> On Mon May 19 2008 09:20:55 Nils Kassube wrote:
> > I would just copy the entire /home directory to
> the external drive. To do
> > that, mount a partition of the external drive to
> /mnt. Then use the
> > command:
> >
> > sudo cp -a /home /mnt
>
> That works in most cases but the following works in
> more cases:
>
> sudo rsync -a -SHAX --delete /home/ /mnt/
>
> Omit the "--delete" if you want to keep old files in
> /mnt
> which no longer exist in /home.
>
> You can omit the "AX" part if, like me, you don't
> use acls
> or xattrs. If in doubt, keep the "AX".
>
> The trailing slashes are important!
>
> If you want to see what rsync is planning to do
> before it
> does it, insert "-v" and "--dry-run". If the plan
> looks OK,
> run rsync again without the "--dry-run".
>
> And don't forget to umount the external drive BEFORE
> disconnecting it!
>
> You can use a slight variant of the above to
> efficiently
> and securely backup over a network or even over the
> internet. Example follows, be sure that you adapt
> it to
> use the correct IP address (or hostname) and target
> path
> for your situation:
>
> sudo rsync -a -SHAX --delete /home/
> 192.168.1.2:/target/
>
> --Mike Bird
>
>Not trying to be a know it all cus I'm not, but tried
the above commands and found that -X is not recognized
but an -x is. Also, for me I had to add the -S -H -A
options each with its own "-" and spaces between each
as it did not recognise the -SHA as shown. Hope this
will help the newbie out some.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
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