Re: backup with rsync
"James L" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.user-groups.linux.ottawa.general |
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> --- On Wed, 6/23/10, James <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm using the following >> command to backup my home directory: >> >> rsync -avh --delete /home/rjl /mnt/esata/home/ >> >> But why does it keep deleting WinXP.vdi? >> >> deleting home/rjl/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/WinXP.vdi >> >> ls -l /mnt/esata/home/rjl/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/ >> total 44869748 >> -rw------- 1 rjl rjl 38078142464 Jun 22 20:48 WinXP.vdi > > You've told rsync to delete any files in /mnt/esata/home/ that aren't > in /home/rjl. > > The ls command shows that the file exists in > /mnt/esata/home/rjl/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/ but rsync doesn't think it > exists in /home/rjl/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/. > > If you don't want to remove that file, use something like > --exclude=home/rjl/.VirtualBox > > The '-n' option can help you get the path right. > > Hope that helps. > roland Thanks. I don't want to exclude .VirtualBox because sometimes I need a backup. I am backing it up to esata and it seems slow. :-( -- OCLUG general discussion list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug