On 01/16/2015 01:28 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 09:32:24PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I care because I like to have a lot of free space in my partitions, but I >> hate to use backup time and space on the holes. > > Hi Kevin, > > If you copy the whole partition, byte-for-byte, as with the > 'dd' command, you copy everything, including the free space. > > If you copy via the filesystem, e.g. using rsync, you just > pay for what you use, and all the files are immediately > available. Restoring a file is a matter of > copying. > > ... > > #!/bin/sh > RSYNC="rsync -avx " > CMD="$RSYNC \ > --exclude /dev \ > --exclude /proc \ > --exclude /sys \ > --exclude /home \ > --exclude /tmp \ > --exclude /var/cache/apt/archives \ > --exclude /var/run \ > / /mnt/$1/root" > echo $CMD >> /var/log/backup.log > I can confirm that the above works. I recently used rsync to copy my live system to another partition, excluding /dev /proc /sys /tmp and /home.
After setting grub to boot the new partition, it works fine. I'm using it now. -Thom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54b8edd7.40...@cagroups.com
