rsync to completely mirror an entire machine

[George Georgalis]

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 12:37:35PM -0700, Christer Edwards wrote:
>Is it safe to just rsync [remote]:/ [local];/ ?  Would the /dev or
>other folders cause issues with this?  Would it be safer to implement
>a more detailed rsync script excluding certain areas?

As already mentioned, there are some issues to watch out for
/var/run, /proc, mail spool, and others. You are probably better
off with a reliable imaging & configuration mngt system; and maybe
a hot spare. Key word here is management, rather than rsync what
the os has written, image the system with the os and apply your
current configurations and data from backup or repository; as
required.

// George


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