Killed /home installing Fedora 7 with Ubuntu

[Les Mikesell]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

>>>> That was a scary lesson that I learned tonight. I'm burning a backup
>>>> now, and I'll be learning rsync tonight...
>>>>
>>> This is an rsync command that my wife and I both use on our laptops
>>> everytime we get home to our local network.
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/rsync -e ssh -avzp --exclude "/home/eagle1/.ssh" --delete
>>> /home/eagle1 / /ns2.local.net:/prtdata/
>> I would suggest using the -n option to rsync to test things before you
>> run it on a live filesystem. Leaving a / off of the end of a path in rsync
>> can be disasterous. It has saved my life many times.
>>
> 
> I'll keep that in mind. Thanks.

Whenever possible, I like to cd into the source directory and
rsync -essh -av . remote_host:/path/to/target
so I don't have to remember which way the magic trailing / works. And if 
there is any chance of hitting mount points I use --one-file-system and 
repeat separately with any I wanted to include.

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   Les Mikesell
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