Bzzzz wrote:
 > On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:56:19 -0400
 > Paul Fox <pgf AT foxharp.boston.ma DOT us> wrote:
 > 
 > > i confess i haven't been following this thread in all its gory detail,
 > 
 > The BackupPC god absolves you (although, it is the BPC v.3x god, so
 > you'll need to upgrade the confessionnal if you want to also be absolved
 > by the v.4.x one.)

:-)

 > > but i suspect that many folks do their backups onto a separately
 > > mounted disk.  if you do that, then adding "--one-file-system" to the
 > > rsync args takes care of it:  you can back up from '/', but only the
 > > root filesystem will be backed up.  any other filesystems on that
 > > machine will also need to be backed up as separate shares, of course.
 > 
 > But this way, you still backup unwanted directories, such as /tmp, /dev,
 > /proc, etc.
 > Starting on the disk root and excluding these allows for a tight control
 > over what you want and the rest, providing you need almost the whole
 > system to be saved for whatever reason.

i didn't say i don't also have some excludes.  i exclude /proc and
/sys.  /dev is a separate filesystem.  /tmp, believe it or not, i do
back up, to help with the morning-after regret of having lost a file i
thought i didn't need.  i think we're ending up in the same place -- i
just need to specifically include mounted filesystems (as separate
share), which is how i prefer it.

paul
=----------------------
paul fox, pgf AT foxharp.boston.ma DOT us (arlington, ma, where it's 58.1 
degrees)


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