Back Up with rsync

[Karl F. Larsen]

	In Linux for years rsync is software in every version and it 
is used in business computers all over the world. With cron 
ssf software you can send your backup over the Internet to 
anywhere. Or you can use it at home.

	My system is Ubuntu 9.04 backing up on a portable hard drive 
at /media/disk/.

	The whole rsync line is in a terminal as:

  rsync -avz / --exclude-from=/home/karl/bin/exclude-list 
/media/disk/backup94

now -avz says backup with visible effects and gzip the package 
on the backup.

--exclude-from= is the exact address of your exclude-list. 
Here is my list:

        Here is my file named exclude-list:
/proc/*
/sys/*
/dev/*
/lost+found/*
/var/log/lastlog/*
/tmp/*
/mnt/*
/cdrom/*
/media/*

The place to put the backup is /media/disk/backup94 and it 
does do this.

	I prefer this manual method for home. I no longer own a business.


73 Karl



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