Bzzzz wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:56:19 -0400 > Paul Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > > > i confess i haven't been following this thread in all its gory detail, > > The BackupPC god absolves you (although, it is the BPC v.3x god, so > you'll need to upgrade the confessionnal if you want to also be absolved > by the v.4.x one.)
:-) > > but i suspect that many folks do their backups onto a separately > > mounted disk. if you do that, then adding "--one-file-system" to the > > rsync args takes care of it: you can back up from '/', but only the > > root filesystem will be backed up. any other filesystems on that > > machine will also need to be backed up as separate shares, of course. > > But this way, you still backup unwanted directories, such as /tmp, /dev, > /proc, etc. > Starting on the disk root and excluding these allows for a tight control > over what you want and the rest, providing you need almost the whole > system to be saved for whatever reason. i didn't say i don't also have some excludes. i exclude /proc and /sys. /dev is a separate filesystem. /tmp, believe it or not, i do back up, to help with the morning-after regret of having lost a file i thought i didn't need. i think we're ending up in the same place -- i just need to specifically include mounted filesystems (as separate share), which is how i prefer it. paul =---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 58.1 degrees) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
