On 2008-08-01 22:09, Shachar Or wrote:
> On Friday 01 August 2008 10:15, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> rsync -ax / user@workstation:/backup/dir/
>
> Does the -x option mean that it will not read mounts like /dev, /proc and
> such?
Please, read man rsync:
[snip]
-x, --one-file-system
This tells rsync to avoid crossing a filesystem boundary
when recursing. This does not limit the user’s ability to
specify items to copy from multiple filesystems, just
rsync’s recursion through the hierarchy of each directory that
the user specified, and also the analogous recursion on
the receiving side during deletion. Also keep in mind that
rsync treats a “bind” mount to the same device as being
on the same filesystem.
If this option is repeated, rsync omits all mount-point
directories from the copy. Otherwise, it includes an empty
directory at each mount-point it encounters (using
the attributes of the mounted directory because those of the
underlying mount-point directory are inaccessible).
If rsync has been told to collapse symlinks (via
--copy-links or --copy-unsafe-links), a symlink to a directory on
another device is treated like a mount-point. Symlinks
to non-directories are unaffected by this option.
Johannes
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