On 11/14/18, to...@tuxteam.de <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 12:18:47PM -0500, Lee wrote: > > [...] > > Just for one data point -- I do my backups basically this way, all > from the command line > > sudo cryptsetup open /dev/sdXX backup > sudo mount /dev/mapper/backup /media/backup > backup # this is a script in ~/bin which basically calls rsync > sudo umount /media/backup > sudo cryptsetup close backup > > The rsync thingie in ~/bin/backup basically does some sanity checks > and calls rsync with --filter="merge $home/.backup/filter". There, > I list some basic excludes and, what's more important, have a line > "dir-merge .backup-filter" -- so I can exclude big, uninteresting > things (videos, virtual OS images etc) which are easy to recover. > > This way my backup is around 55G and fits in a 64G stick. Has served > me well so far.
Wow! Thanks for the --filter tip. Somehow I managed to miss that when looking at the rsync man page Lee
