On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:39:33 -0400 "Thomas H. George" <li...@tomgeorge.info> wrote:
> I partitioned a 1 TG usbdrive as ext3, mounted it as /usbmem and entered > the command rsync -r / /usbmem. The tranfer proceeded with many > messages "skipping non-regular file 'foo'". Eventually the transfer > hung up with some messages "file has vanished 'foo'". I aborted with a > ctl-c. df -h reported > > Script started on Thu 21 Jul 2011 06:08:03 PM EDT > dragon:~# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdc1 71G 48G 20G 72% / > tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw > udev 2.0G 276K 2.0G 1% /dev > tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm > /dev/sdb5 44G 181M 42G 1% /i386chroot > /dev/sdb6 276G 76G 186G 30% /data > /dev/sda1 1.7G 35M 1.6G 3% /temp > /dev/sda5 27G 4.9G 21G 20% /storage > /dev/sdd1 917G 101G 770G 12% /usbmem > dragon:~# exit > > Script done on Thu 21 Jul 2011 06:08:14 PM EDT > > Clearly most of the files have been transfered and I can read them on > /usbmem. > > My object had been to backup everything before moving from Squeeze to > Wheezy > > Any Suggestions? > > I'm not exactly sure what you want, but to use rsync as a backup tool, I think that you should use the -a option. Also you can run rsync with the -u and -n option and that should give you a list of things that were not copied. I mean if the goal is just backup of files you want to keep, i.e. you are not trying to clone a disk, you're probably better off targetting the directories of interest so that you're not just copying everything blindly. Generally when I've done similar sorts of things I just us "cp -a". Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110721211134.563a9...@windy.deldotd.com
