What directories to exclude from Rsync when moving /root partition

dejy · 2015-06-03 22:09:13

I'm moving my /root and /home partitions to a new partition left of their current locations on the drive. So far I have:

#!/bin/bash
#dry-run
rsync -avxognHXW --no-compress --progress --numeric-ids \
  / /media/new/ \
  --exclude=/media/* \
  --exclude=/mnt/* \
  --exclude=cache \
  --exclude=/home/*/.cache \

I know there are also locks and files in proc I want to exclude, but I don't have a comprehensive list. Will I be polluting the relocated installation if I miss these?

lucke · 2015-06-03 22:19:24

Look at the command at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fu … le_command.

dejy · 2015-06-03 22:25:50

lucke wrote:

Look at the command at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fu … le_command.

I looked at that, I wasn't sure whether the backup did not exclude things that would be necessary on relocation.

Last edited by dejy (2015-06-03 22:26:08)

lucke · 2015-06-03 22:27:06

You don't need the contents of /dev, /proc, /sys, /run and /tmp.

bulletmark · 2015-06-04 00:19:03

lucke wrote:

You don't need the contents of /dev, /proc, /sys, /run and /tmp.

He's already specified "-x" so rsync won't copy those anyhow. For that reason /mnt/* and /media/* are also excluded so don't really need to be explicitly excluded.

WFV · 2015-06-13 18:09:03

for root

rsync -aAXhv --exclude={/dev/*,/home/*,/media/*,/mnt/*,/proc/*,/run/*,/sys/*,/tmp/*,/var/lib/pacman/*,/lost+found} /<path to new location>

you might want to include /var/lib/pacman, the first half (input) of this rsync is part of an incremental system backup I use for local rollback

Last edited by WFV (2015-06-13 18:12:50)

grandtheftjiujitsu · 2015-06-13 23:42:08

It may be helpful to read about the Arch filesystem hierarchy and which directories are populated on boot and those that are essential for booting or otherwise warranting of a backup.

Depending on how pinched you are for storage space you can also read here which is a method I've used when doing a minimal backing up to a thumb drive.

dejy · 2015-06-20 10:17:37

WFV wrote:

for root
rsync -aAXhv --exclude={/dev/*,/home/*,/media/*,/mnt/*,/proc/*,/run/*,/sys/*,/tmp/*,/var/lib/pacman/*,/lost+found} /<path to new location> 
you might want to include /var/lib/pacman, the first half (input) of this rsync is part of an incremental system backup I use for local rollback

The poster above you is correct and I don't know why the wiki has this the --exclude is redundant with -X for the flag.

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What directories to exclude from Rsync when moving /root partition

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