Back Up with rsync

[Karl F. Larsen]

Patton Echols wrote:
> On 01/15/2010 05:37 AM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> Jozsef wrote:
>>   
>>> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:37:15 +0400, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     
>>>>   [snip]
>>>>
>>>>   rsync -avz / --exclude-from=/home/karl/bin/exclude-list
>>>> /media/disk/backup94
>>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> Good. Thanks for this. Will give it a try. But I want to ask what's the  
>>> way you are restoring your files in case you need them? Would be nice to  
>>> have that part of commands in details like we got your commands for  
>>> backing up.
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>>     
>> 	The rebuild is simple. If you loose a couple of files, you 
>> find those files EXACTLY where they were on the backup. Use cp 
>> -a filename if permissions allow, otherwise sudo cp -a.
>>
>> 	If you have a new hard drive because the old one died,  just 
>> cp the whole system into the SAME partition on the new hard 
>> drive and you will be up and running in 15 minutes.
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>>
>>   
> 
> 
> I believe you can also simply "reverse" the rsync command.  Careful to 
> read the man pages for what you want rsync to do.  Example, you can 
> instruct rsync to replace older files, newer files, files of different 
> size, etc, but if the time stamp and file size are the same, then 
> ignore.  The exact command you would give depends on exactly what you 
> want to accomplish.
> 
> <disclaimer> I am operating from memory here.  For exact capabilities, 
> see the man page </disclaimer>
> 
> The point is that, because rsync is designed to work over networks, it 
> is oriented to only transferring files that have changed in some way.
> 
> 
	Exactly. That makes it so good. The man page does talk about 
moving files back but I know from experience that cp -a works 
fine and it is easy to see it work.

73 Karl


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