On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 13:57 +0300, edac...@gmail.com wrote: > On 09/09/2010 03:16 AM, Chris wrote: > > I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var > > on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive. > > I've tried dd however since it copies over everything, even empty space > > it didn't seem very practical since for instance root only has 10GiB out > > of 70 used. Would rsync be a suitable application to use for this or > > will it only work over a network? > > > > Thank you for any information > > > > > > See http://edacval.wikidot.com/backup-whole-system-with-rsync
Thanks again for the link, a couple of questions: 1 - My backup usb drive is mounted in /media/backup, shouldn't cause a problem correct? 2 - Since my system is spaced across two drives will they both be backed up or would I require some additional parameters? Chris -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C
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