On Fri, 15 May 2015 17:20:37 -0600 a <a@kaluta.us> wrote:
can you give me an idea of the corrected code there a few mail directories I wish to save.would saving these be sufficient to transfer contents to new reload?
I like to use rsync for backups. cp -a is good for a file or two. rsync is way better to backup up directories. And rsync works well for restoring from backups.; Here is a simple example First I do a dry run to see what will happen, especially important when using --delete. rsync -havn /home/me/ /backup/home/me/ --delete --exclude=*.iso Then get rid of the n option to actually do it. rsync -hav /home/me/ /backup/home/me/ --delete --exclude=*.iso And for extra credit, here is a more complex example from a backup script file. rsync -hav $task $dest$task --backup --backup-dir=$bkupdest$task --exclude-from=$whatnottobackup --delete --one-file-system --numeric-ids --delete-excluded Where $task is something like /etc/ /home/me/ /var/www/ $dest$task is something like /backup/hostname/current/etc/ $bkupdest$task is something like /backup/hostname/2015-05/16/etc/ $whatnottobackup is a file that includes things like #exclude.txt file *.SV$ *.bak *.iso /var/cache/apt/archives Trash/ trash/ Mars -- ============================================================= J. Marsden DeLapp, PE President DeLapp & Associates, Inc. dba DeLapp Engineering. Providing lighting and power planning, design and analysis services for commercial, industrial and large residential facilities. 1190 Harrison Road Ste 3a Santa Fe NM 87507 (505) 983-5557 http://DeLapp.com =============================================================