On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 12:14, Nick Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 11:04 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: > > i read up on the man page of rsync and got that this command will backup > > my server to another external drive i have: > > > > mail root # rsync -avz / /mnt/backup/ > > > > but when i run that command i get a bunch of 'no such file errors' and > > then it starts coping everything. is this bad? > >
Well... it's probably not doing any harm, but rsync is trying to make copies of /proc, which is not real files. Try rsync -avz --exclude=/proc / /mnt/backup/ Upon inspection, you'll find there are probably other places you'll want to exclude. > > > sorry for replying to my own email, but i wanted to add, that it would > be nice if it would check to see if the file already existed from a > previous backup and if it had the same date/size etc it would skip it > and move on to the next file, because alot of these files wont be > changing (this is an email server, and archived mail wont change) does > my current setup allow for that or do i have to do something different? > because i think that would speed up backups considerably, no? rsync -a is already doing exactly that. You should run rsync again immediately after it's finished, and notice that only changed files are listed the second time. -- Arran -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
