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On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 20:41 +0000, Paul Stear wrote: |
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> I am using ext2 on the usb backup disk. I'm not sure if I understand you |
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> correctly. What do you mean by Use --one-file-system ? |
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RTM :) |
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"This tells rsync to avoid crossing a filesystem boundary when |
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recursing. This does not limit the user's ability to specify items to |
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copy from multiple filesystems" |
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so if you rsync / with --one-file-system then only whats on the mount / |
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will be copied. ie. if you booted with a rescue disk and just mounted |
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your root fs, what would you see? You can still specify multiple FSs to |
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rsync and -x as well. |
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HTH, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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