On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 18:10 +0100, Zacharie Elcor wrote: > Hi all, > > I made a fedora install on a bootable usb disk to have a system backup > in case my laptop internal disk crashes. > This works ok but I'd like to be able to perform regular updates of > the usb disk (including packages installed or updated by yum and > personal files) so that the usb disk is almost up to date when I boot > on it. > Does it make sense to rsync the entire file system ? I think some > directories shouldn't be copied this way (eg /boot, /dev). > > Thanks in advance for help or links. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list I'd use tar once in a while. $ mkdir /mn/backup $ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/backup $ tar -cvzpf backup-$(date +"%Y-%m-%d").tgz --exclude=dev/* --exclude=proc/* --exclude=sys/* --exclude=tmp/* --exclude=media/* --exclude=autofs/* --exclude=mnt/* $ umount /mnt/backup - Gilboa
