Re: backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup
On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 2:55 AM Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sb, 02 oct 21, 19:56:02, Default User wrote:
> >
> > And . . . I make a special point of excluding:
> > /media
> > /media/*
> > /mnt
> > /mnt/*
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > Because long ago, when I was just learning to use rsync, I tried to
> > use it to do a full-system backup. Since nobody told me that /mnt and
> > /media had to be specifically excluded, rsync did exactly what it was
> > told to do, recursively backing up everything, filling up an entire
> > 1Tb hard drive, stopping only when it ran out of room!
> >
> > I do not ever want that to happen again.
> >
> > Fun fact:
> > I can use the same exclude list to mirror the same user stuff to a
> > different backup directory, with obsessive frequency, using rsync:
> >
> > sudo rsync -avHx --delete --stats --exclude-from
> > "/home/debian-user/rsync_exclude_list.txt" /home
> > /media/debian-user/backup_drive/backups_of_host_home_directory_only
>
> In case of system backups the top-level directories themselves should
> probably be included because they are needed as mount points. rsync's -x
> parameter should already take care of excluding the (special) mounts
> *under* /mnt, /media, /dev, /sys, /run etc.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Andrei
> --
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Hi Andrei, thanks for the tip!
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