rsync or replacement backup

[Karl Larsen]

    I was in hope what I saw today was a good way to use rsync but I was 
wrong. The method presented was not complete and didn't work as written. 
This seems to be a big problem with rsync :-)

    What I want to see is a way to use rsync and be able to tell it a 
few directories to not back up. Or, as good would be a way to tell it to 
only backup these directories. What I use now is not good but it works. 
Here it is:

karl at karl-desktop:~$ cat /root/bin/backup
# This file is designed to backup my Ubuntu to the USB Hard Drive using 
rsync
# Karl Larsen, 26 Feb 08
rsync -avz /boot /media/disk/
rsync -avz /bin  /media/disk/
rsync -avz /dev  /media/disk/
rsync -avz /etc  /media/disk/
rsync -avz /lib  /media/disk/
rsync -avz /opt  /media/disk/
rsync -avz /root /media/disk/
rsync -avz /sbin /media/disk/
rsync -avz /srv  /media/disk/
rsync -avz /sys  /media/disk/
rsync -avz /tmp /media/disk/
rsync -avz /usr /media/disk/
rsync -avz /var /media/disk/
rsync -avz /initrd /media/disk/

    Of course /sbin is the current sbin directory. /media/disk/ is where 
the USB hard disk is located.

     So does anyone know a good one line way to do the same thing?

Karl

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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