> That was a scary lesson that I learned tonight. I'm burning a backup > now, and I'll be learning rsync tonight... > This is an rsync command that my wife and I both use on our laptops everytime we get home to our local network. /usr/bin/rsync -e ssh -avzp --exclude "/home/eagle1/.ssh" --delete /home/eagle1 / /ns2.local.net:/prtdata/ This command will be all on one line and it will delete files that do not exist on the local machine, that is if I delete a file from my local machine and then do the backup is will be deleted from the backup server. I do this as a backup of my live file system, every other night I run mondo rescue and alternate through about a two week span on the old father, grandfather, great grandfather routine of backing up. Also, the command above was setup to work on a password less ssh login, but if you have not set that up it will merely ask for the users password on the server. I am glad that the partition was just not mounted, but for future reference, everything I have read about the ext3 files system states that once deleted you cannot recover a file. -- John Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org
