30 Mar
2012
30 Mar
'12
1:54 p.m.
On 30 Mar 13:05, Chris Walker wrote:
I'm about to backup my system as I want to resize the sda1 partition and I didn't think it was possible to do that with an existing system.
So I looked online and found a Ubuntu guide to it which suggests excluding the following directories :- /proc /lost+found /mnt /sys/
I intend to backup /home separately so I will also exclude that but is the list reasonable or are there others I should also exclude?
/dev now that udev is prevalent should also be excluded.
Though, generally, I'd say you should backup / with the option that says "don't backup other filesystems", which gets rid of /proc things mounted under /mnt and /sys without having to try.
With rsync, that would be the -x option,.
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Brett Parker