Re: excludes list

[Chinook <chinook.nr@tds.net>]

Brad Sims wrote:
> On Thursday 29 December 2005 2:24 am, Chinook wrote:
> > In cloning my system I want to capture everything that is important if I 
> > need to "rollback" to a clone, but I don't want to waste time with data 
> > that is not needed.
> >
> > For example, I might exclude anything within /tmp [?], /proc, 
> > /home/<usr>/tmp
> >   but not /dev, /etc, /var, /home (other than <usr>/tmp and known 
> > fluff), /root and /opt.
> >
> > Been googling around for more than over generalizations but have not 
> > done so well yet :-)
> >
> > Any comments, urls, etc would be appreciated.
>
> Well presuming you are using rsync create a file named something like
> Exclude_List. Exclude_List contains each directory to be excluded on a
> separate line. When you call rsync add ` --exclude-from=$exclude_file_name.
>
> Here is a link to the script I use to rsync my hardrive to an external usb HD.
> http://home.insightbb.com/~bmsims1/Backup_Script.html

Thanks Brad,

I had gotten that far - just unfamiliar with the specifics of the Linux 
file system.  Found some more info though, like
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_01.html
and http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
which is helping me decide on specifics.

I'm fairly familiar with the various *nix tools
(note my article http://homepage.mac.com/lee_cullens/Bx3.html).

Thanks again for the reply,
Lee C
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