How to backup before a release upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS server?

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Bo,

On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 20:32, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

> After reading up a bit more I have concluded the following to be true
> since the
> documentation specifically says that files are relative to the *source
> dir*:
>
> rsync -a --exclude-from='home/user/rsyncexcude.txt' / /mnt/backup/20210927/
>

Good luck!

According to the man page there is an option -n (long format --dry-run)
which will
"perform a trial run with no changes made"

I haven't used it - yet.

Am interested to know how things work for you.

HTH,


Ian


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