Re: local partition backup with rsync

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> 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.
>
> Anybody uses rsync to backup the partition that they boot into?

Thanks for the answers.
I guess I will try rsnapshot and rdiff-backup because although the rsync 
job now works OK with --exclude /hdb5, I cannot boot from it: it keeps 
booting the partition that it came from, although I adjusted 
/hdb5/etc/fstab and reran lilo to point to the newly copied partition.

With mondo those are the only 2 adjustments you have to make to boot 
into a copied partition.

Hugo