rsync backup

[Karl F. Larsen]

Brian Craft wrote:
> I use rsync both at work and home for daily backups.   For my laptop at 
> home that has a separate partition just for backups, I wrote the 
> following script file and then set a cron job to run each morning at 
> 2am.  I'm not excluding anything, but here is what I'm using. I just put 
> the following in a new file and name it backup.sh (make it executable).
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> #!/bin/sh
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> rsync -avh /home/brian/ 
> /media/b0f19085-3ada-4af8-b201-6f53cdd73899/ubuntu910backup/
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	Unless I don't understand, your backup is just for the 
/home/brian directory. I can do that. But what I want is a 
complete backup of this computer.

Karl

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> Hope that helps
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> Brian Craft
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> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> 	I have lost the little thing I used to call for a backup of 
>> my linux. I was using rsync -avg /  exempt/media exempt/dev  . 
>> .. /media/disk-1, or something like that.
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>> 	I have looked at man rsync which is confusing, and tried 
>> Google but their info is trivial.
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>> 	Is anyone using something like this?
>>
>> Karl
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