[Durham] rsync

[Dougie Nisbet]

On 03/04/12 01:04, Richard Mortimer wrote:
>
> 2 - make sure that you don't have any network mounted drives present 
> (or exclude them explicitly as per /proc)

I usually get around this my mounting my drive somewhere else. e.g. 
mount it on /backingup then rsync /backingup to wherever it needs to go.

In fact to do a quick and dirty regular backup to an external usb drive 
my script is as simple as:

#!/bin/bash

if mount /dev/sda1 /backup_mountpoint
then
         rsync -rva --delete /backup_mountpoint/ /media/usb0/
else
         echo error mounting root
fi

umount /backup_mountpoint


This is handy if I'm doing a new distro or a new install and I'm only 
interested in copying/viewing config files etc from the old system. I 
suspect there would be issues using it for a complete restore.