rsync backup

[Karl F. Larsen]

Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:11:26PM -0700, Thomas K Gamble wrote:
>> On Monday 23 November 2009 11:37:38 am Robert Holtzman wrote:i
> 
>>>> -u option
>>>> tells rsync to only back up those files that have changed since your last
>>>> backup.
>>> I thought that's what rsync did by default.
>>>
>> Well, it seems you're right.  I've just gotten into the habit from using -h 
>> with cp on systems that didn't have rsync.  Also, it seems this behavior is 
>> documented rather obscurely in the --Ignore-times option description in the 
>> man page.
> 
> Believe me, that's not the only obscurity in the man page.
> 
> 

	I learned a way to get rsync to work by testing. I started 
with a very simple task of putting /boot/ on the USB connected 
HD with this command copied from a line given me, thanks.

	rsync -avg /boot/ /media/disk-1/test/

and this worked great! So I added some stuff to see if it works:
	rsync -avg /boot/ --exclude /grub/ /media/disk-1/test/

and this worked great as well!

	So now I did what I wanted with a --exclude-from and it now 
looks like this:

  sudo rsync -avg / 
--exclude-from=/home/karl/bin/exclude-list/  /media/disk-1/test/

and this had an error I figured out ment the / right after 
exclude-list was bad. So I tried:

  sudo rsync -avg / --exclude-from=/home/karl/bin/exclude-list 
/media/disk-1/test/

and this backed up my computer! I tried a partial backup and 
it worked fine.

	So that is how I got it working.

73 Karl



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