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On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:43:32 +0000, Paul Stear wrote: |
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> I use a script to perform backup to a connected usb harddisk and I have |
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> noticed that it appears to be writing all files each time instead of |
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> updating only the changes. I am wondering if rsync has changed. I |
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> have read the man pages but am not quite sure if I understand it fully. |
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> This is part of my script:- |
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> $RSYNC \ |
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> -Cvalu --delete-during --stats --progress --exclude '*Trash*' --exclude |
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> '/home/paul/Programs' --exclude 'run' \ |
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> --exclude 'test' --exclude 'media/' --exclude '/home/paul/video/' |
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> --exclude 'mnt/' --exclude 'sys' \ |
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> --exclude 'tmp' --exclude 'joan' --exclude 'backup' --exclude 'proc/' |
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> --exclude 'log' \ |
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> --exclude 'boot' --exclude 'dev/' --exclude 'lost+found' \ |
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> / /mnt/external/MusicBackup ; |
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> Could someone who is more knowledgeable than me please review the above |
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> and let me know what changes I need to make. |
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First of all, put all your excludes in a file and use --exclude-from |
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filename, it makes thing much easier to read. |
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What filesystem are you using on the target? If it is FAT, you may need |
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to use --modify-window because of FAT's different timestamping. |
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> One other question |
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> I wanted to create the empty directories on the backup i.e. run, dev, |
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> also directory links i.e. lib to lib64 |
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Use --one-file-system instead of excluding /proc, /sys etc. It saves |
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adding all those excludes and it creates the mount-points, because that |
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are on the source filesystem. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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