[Discuss] How do you backup "/" with rsync?

[John Blomfield]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
> rsync -a --delete --exclude=/external_backup --exclude=/dev \
> / /external_backup
>
> However, when I tried that command and several other variations using the
> --dry-run option it always errored out.  Thus, I assume I have not 
> excluded
> /external_backup (the mount point for the external drive) and /dev 
> with the
> correct syntax above.  Could somebody help?
>
I think the syntax you need is

rsync -a --delete --exclude=external_backup/***

John Blomfield

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