These are my notes on how to do a quick Linux backup with Rsync. In this case, copied all files from Debian to a remote Ubuntu machine. Here is the command line I ended up with and why; rsync -rP / –exclude={“/dev/*”,”/proc/*”,”/sys/*”,”/tmp/*”,”/run/*”,”/mnt/*”,”/media/*”,”/lost+found”} user@remote_host:/mnt/remote_directory The synced directory, in this case / needs to precede excluded directories. I […]
