On Mon, 07 Dec 2020 04:59:13 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 01:35:07 -0000 (UTC)
> Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>
>> Indeed, but this us a special case: the RPi boot process mounts the
>> boot partition on /boot and any backup of '/' made on a running RPi
>> with rsync *will* include the contents of the boot partition unless
>> you've configured the rsync run to exclude /boot/* . Don't ask me how I
>> know!
>
>  Which is why all rsync based archive scripts should use the -x
flag
> to rsync which prevents crossing filesystem boundaries, it's not just
> /boot you need to skip but *all* mounted filesystems.

Fair comment.




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