Re: local partition backup with rsync

[Angelo Bertolli <angelo@freeshell.org>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Hi,
>
> I would like to do a local partition backup with rsync.
>
> It works right with a partition that contains /home:
>
>
> rsync -av --delete /hda10 /sdb7
>
>
> But it does not work right with the partition that I boot into:
>
>
> rsync -av --delete --exclude /home --exclude /usr/local --exclude 
> /hda10  / /hdb5
>
>
> He does it the first time, but the second time, which is supposed to 
> be just an update, he copies all files again and runs out of room.

I know you'll hit yourself on the head for this one, but you need to 
exclude /hdb5 too... you're recursively backing up your previous backups.

Angelo