On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 04:29:41PM -0500, Jonathan Thornburg wrote:
> Etienne Robillard <robillard.etienne () gmail ! com> wrote
> > i kinda like cpio for fast backup of filesystems... for large media
> > files (think anime movies) -- I think its generally best to just
> > burn them on a iso..
>
> I have found rsync to an external usb hard disk to work very nicely;
> these are now cheap and readily available up to over a terabyte.
> Here are a few notes from my experience using this strategy for the
> past several years:
I do the same for my laptop. I use a drive compatible with my laptop in
an USB enclosure. I partition the USB disk identical to the one in my
laptop and use rsync to clone the data. Should the drive in my laptop
fail, I can just pop the disk out of the USB enclosure and into the
laptop. It's also possible to just boot off the USB disk.
> #!/bin/sh
> set -x
> rsync -aHESvv --delete \
> --exclude '/home/jonathan/crypt/*' \
> --exclude '/mnt/oxygen/home/jonathan/crypt/*' \
> /home/jonathan/ /mnt/oxygen/home/jonathan/
> This works fine except that the --exclude options are not honored
> (files under those directories are still copied). I don't know what's
> wrong there...
They are honored. The path is relative. You're actually excluding
'/home/jonathan/home/jonathan/crypt/*', etc.
rsync -aHESvv --delete --exclude '/crypt/*' \
/home/jonathan/ /mnt/oxygen/home/jonathan/
This link[1] and rsnapshot in ports may also be of interest to some.
[1] http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
