Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync for backup, can anybody help

[Paul Stear]

> Neil has handled this... I wanted to include the rsync syntax to
> collect only directories... full or empty:
>
> So to collect all the directories regardless of your excludes
> put this before any excludes:
>     --include=/**/
>
> The trailing slash confines it to direcotories only.
Thanks for the tip,
I have been trying to get this to work properly for most of the day, but I 
still have problems.
On my file system I have a directory "lib" which is a link to "lib64 
(Folder)".  I have tried various options to the rsync command but still 
haven't managed to retain this link on the backup disc.
Am I right in thinking that I would need to do a separate backup for /boot

Also I am getting a lot of errors and the backup is  finishing early and 
not producing the stats. i.e.

rsync: 
symlink "/mnt/external/OneFileSystemBackup/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/libopcodes.so" -> "/usr/lib32/binutils/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.18/libopcodes.so" 
failed: Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: chown "/mnt/external/OneFileSystemBackup/usr/include" failed: 
Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (11192228 bytes received so far) 
[generator]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(458) 
[generator=2.6.9]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (78658 bytes received so far) 
[sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(458) 
[sender=2.6.9]
Backup finished at 16:43, umounting /dev/sdd1

This is my command line:-
$RSYNC                                                          \
-vaHKiq --delete-during --stats --progress --modify-window=2 --one-file-system  --include=/**/ / 
/mnt/external/OneFileSystemBackup ;

More help required please, thanks for your efforts so far.

Just a thought, is this the best way to backup my system?
Thanks
Paul

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