On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 01:30:13PM +0100, debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote: [...] > One other consideration that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere in this > thread is what happens if you back up filesystems to filesystems? I never use the backup's medium top-level dir as a target. In my current usage, that's how my medium looks like: tomas@trotzki:~$ ls -l /media/backup total 20 drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Aug 27 2022 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 27 2022 trotzki ...so there's a top-level dir named after the "client" host. My backup scripts gets a positive list of things to back up -- and I sprinkle files named .backup-filter for more control (I tell rsync about that). Simple, effective. Putting tons of "--exclude" and things into the command line will drive you crazy after a while :) Cheers -- t
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