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telis80

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Registered: 2015-03-26

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Rsync does not write to external drive

Hi, i am trying to backup the main system without the home directory, looked into wiki on how to do it. Although it does show me the files to be copied rsync does not copy them. Any ideas?

rsync -aAXv --dry-run --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found","/swapfile","/swapfile2","/home/*"} / /run/media/$username/$diskname/sysbackup 

i have excluded the two swap files, and the home directory for now, what am i doing wrong?

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ewaller

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Re: Rsync does not write to external drive

I assume you tried that command without the --dry-run.

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Re: Rsync does not write to external drive

Errrr ... to rule out the obvious: you do not expect copies while issuing "--dry-run", are you?

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Re: Rsync does not write to external drive

Moving to NC...

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telis80

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Registered: 2015-03-26

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Re: Rsync does not write to external drive

The blog i read it was saying it is for the terminal output, i am embarrassed

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