[Discuss] full disk backups

[Marco Milano]

What happens if you use the following options?

--no-specials --no-devices

On 8/17/19 5:59 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> This is the command I ended up running:
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> sudo rsync -a --delete
> -exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"}
> / /media/eric/USB1TB/
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> After letting it run for an hour and a half I killed it.  My laptop is
> pretty fast and there were a lot of errors.  Such as "rsync: mkstemp"
> and "rsync: symlink" with invalid argument.
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> Did I accidentally make a loop of some type?  Fiddling with it now.
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> Suggestions welcome!
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> Thanks,
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> Eric
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