On 13/08/2018 15:33, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:24:38 +0100, Chris Elvidge wrote:
>
>> On 12/08/2018 15:34, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>>
>>> I use a different set of options, because we have slightly different
>>> requirements: I don't want rsync to stop except for serious errors. I'm
>>> running with these options:
>>>
>>> -avzE --delete --delete-excluded --ignore-errors --log-file=$log
>>>
>>> plus several excludes so it doesn't back up stuff pseudo-filestore
>>> structures like /run and /proc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> -x will stop it crossing filesystem boundaries, thus excluding /run
>> /proc /dev /sys (and others) automatically.
>
> rsync is run from a common script that is used to back up several systems
> which have differing partition schemes (two laptops, one PC running
> Fedora and a RaspberryPi running Raspbian), so the source filesystem is
> referenced as "$hostname:/".  I think this excludes the possibility of
> using the -x option.
>
>

OK


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Chris Elvidge, England

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