Backing up a stand alone system to a usb drive with rsync

[Chris]

On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 13:57 +0300, edacval at gmail.com wrote:
> On 09/09/2010 03:16 AM, Chris wrote:
> > I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var
> > on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive.
> > I've tried dd however since it copies over everything, even empty space
> > it didn't seem very practical since for instance root only has 10GiB out
> > of 70 used. Would rsync be a suitable application to use for this or
> > will it only work over a network?
> >
> > Thank you for any information
> >
> >
> 
> See http://edacval.wikidot.com/backup-whole-system-with-rsync

Thanks very much for the link, I've printed it and am printing the rsync
man page now. I may have a few more questions if that's ok.

Thanks
Chris

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Chris
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