Re: Getting to runlevel 1

2008-08-29 Thread Bob McGowan
Shachar Or wrote: 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 s

Re: Getting to runlevel 1

2008-08-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-08-29 14:10, Nicolas BERCHER wrote: > 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... ... or -- even more simple -- use the '-x' option to stay on root's file system. That doesn't exclude /tm

Re: Getting to runlevel 1

2008-08-29 Thread Nicolas BERCHER
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 : /proc /sys /tmp /mnt /media ... then call rsync: rsync --exclude-from=... Indeed, It is also possible to o

Re: Getting to runlevel 1

2008-08-28 Thread Shachar Or
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 use

Getting to runlevel 1

2008-08-28 Thread Shachar Or
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 th