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Full system clone, snapshot using rsync

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I have automated backups running on my ubuntu box using rsnapshot (rsync) basically following this tutorial. My concern is how to restore if everything is lost. Since it does not seem that I can backup the entire drive and that I have to choose individual folders and some like proc/ cause problems.…

Error Output

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### BACKUP POINTS / SCRIPTS ###
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# LOCALHOST
backup  /var/           localhost/
backu…

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You can pass the option to , so that it doesn't recurse into other filesystems (such as , , etc.). The easiest way to do that is to pass to . If you do have several disk filesystems (e.g. separate from ), list them all as backup points. Whether you …

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