I think you should just backup your / with rsync and its option
--exclude-from in order to ignore /proc, /sys, /mnt, /media, /tmp and so
on...
Simply put items to ignore into a text <file>:
/proc
/sys
/tmp
/mnt
/media
...
then call rsync:
rsync <options> --exclude-from=<file>...
Indeed, It is also possible to only backup things that are not managed
by apt: /etc, /root, /home, /usr/local, etc. & your aptitude/apt-get
installed packages list !
On Friday 29 August 2008 02:15, Shachar Or wrote:
Hi.
In order to rsync my root, I switch to single user mode. While I'm quite
positive that it is good that I quit my desktop session before the rsync,
I'm not sure what good it does to switch to single user mode.
I switch to single user mode by 'shutdown -r now' and selecting it in grub.
Is there a quicker way? 'init 1' seems to get me in a state where there are
a few daemons running that wouldn't be otherwise.
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