Re: Getting to runlevel 1

[Nicolas BERCHER <nbercher@yahoo.fr>]

I think you should just backup your / with rsync and its option 
--exclude-from in order to ignore /proc, /sys, /mnt, /media, /tmp and so 
on...
Simply put items to ignore into a text <file>:
/proc
/sys
/tmp
/mnt
/media
...

then call rsync:
   rsync <options> --exclude-from=<file>...

Indeed, It is also possible to only backup things that are not managed 
by apt: /etc, /root, /home, /usr/local, etc. & your aptitude/apt-get 
installed packages list !


> On Friday 29 August 2008 02:15, Shachar Or wrote:
>   
> > Hi.
> >
> > In order to rsync my root, I switch to single user mode. While I'm quite
> > positive that it is good that I quit my desktop session before the rsync,
> > I'm not sure what good it does to switch to single user mode.
> >
> > I switch to single user mode by 'shutdown -r now' and selecting it in grub.
> > Is there a quicker way? 'init 1' seems to get me in a state where there are
> > a few daemons running that wouldn't be otherwise.
> >     
>
> Forgot to mention I'm not subscribed :)
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