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,.