rsync mystery

[David Koski]

On Monday 19 May 2008 16:52, Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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

/proc takes up no space but an rsync copy can.

> and that caused the larger than original backup.

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Regards,
David Koski
david at kosmosisland.com