On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Paul E Condon wrote:
Create a top level target directory on the USB #> mkdir /media/USB/target Do something like #> rsync -a /home/ /media/USB/target Notice that 'home' has slashes both left and right. This is important to rsync. Follow with rsync of other directories in /. E.g. /etc, /boot, /root, etc. Do NOT do #> rsync -a /media/ /media/USB/target ;-(
Too much work. Use: rsync -vaHz --exclude '/proc' --exclude '/sys' --exclude '/media' / /media/USB/target -- Bob Holtzman The age of consent should be raised to 22 and made mandatory