rsync mystery

[Karl Larsen]

Mike Bird wrote:
> On Mon May 19 2008 15:55:16 Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     I have backed up this system to my second hard drive but there is a
>> strange problem. Yesterday I found a problem and now this computer is
>> running in just 2894892000 bytes. I just backed it up and the size of
>> the backup is at least 3549580000 bytes.
>>
>>     Does anyone know why a backup is larger than the original??
>>     
>
> Did the backup use both -H and -S?
>
> IIRC your root partition was about 2.8GB.  Did it backup
> other partitions (e.g. /home or /var/run) in addition to
> your root partition?
>
> --Mike Bird
>
>   
    I used neither -H or -S it was a simple backup of the entire system. 
I used this:
sudo rsync -av /boot /bin /dev /etc /initrd /lib /proc /root /sbin /sys 
/tmp /usr : /mnt

and that caused the larger than original backup.

Karl


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