Try putting some additional line breaks at the end of your file. I am
not sure if this will solve your issues. Give it a go and report back
if this resolves the issue. Hope this helps
I decided the most secure way to deal with backup/firewall issues
between my
work and home was to encrypt a portable hard drive and make it my
backup.
Lug it back and forth and sync as appropriate. So I wrote myself a
little
rsync script which grabs all the files I think of as taking work to
recreate.
Which is given as follows:
rsync -avl --stats --progress --timeout=300 --exclude-from "/home/
foo/bin/exclude.txt" /home /mnt/sdc2
rsync -avl --stats --progress --timeout=300 --exclude-from "/home/
foo/bin/exclude.txt" /etc /mnt/sdc2/beast
rsync -avl --stats --progress --timeout=300 --exclude-from "/home/
foo/bin/exclude.txt" /srv /mnt/sdc2/beast
Since there are, as with any backups, files I don't want to bother
backing up
I created an exclude file and stored it in my bin.
- /home/foo/vmware
- /home/foo/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/spam/*
- /home/foo/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/.spam.directory/*
- /home/foo/.mozilla/firefox/tigy4u04.default/Cache
- /home/foo/packages
- /home/foo/.cxgames
- /home/foo/.cxoffice
- /home/foo/.beagle
- /home/foo/downloads/images
With the rsync script in the /home/foo/bin I ran the script with
myself as
root in the root directory. Which leads to the reason for this
letter.
The exclude file appears to have worked, with one exception. I
don't have
the vmware directory, the link to packages was not followed, the
crossover
directories are not in the backup ect. All very good and as
hoped. The
exception is in the very last line. The very last line of the
exclude file
is the directory that contains iso images I downloaded for whatever
reason.
Things like my latest image for my distro and such. I did NOT want
to back
those up since in the event of catastrophe I would simply redownload
them and
the files are rather sizeable. Much to my surprise, the images
directory was
in the backup along with its contents. I can assure you that the
path is as
given.
Is there any idea why I got that one directory in the backup?
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