Backup question

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 08:42:20AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 16Mar2014 15:56, CS DBA <cs_dba at consistentstate.com> wrote:
> > where would I find a complete list of the completely dynamic top
> > level directories?
> 
> You shouldn't care that they're top level, only which ones are the
> right type.
> 
> Like this:
> 
>     mount | awk '$5 ~ /^(xfs|ext2|ext3)$/ { print $1 }'
> 
> So in a script:
> 
>     mountpoints=$( mount | awk '$5 ~ /^(xfs|ext2|ext3)$/ { print $1 }' )
>     for fs in $mount_points
>     do
>       ... backup "$fs", eg "rsync -x "$fs" ...
>     done
> 
> Expand the list of filesystem types with the ones you actually use;
> I tend to use xfs myself.
> 
> You may want to explicitly avoid removable drives if they mount in
> a recognisably place. For example, I hand mount removable drives
> as /mnt/whatever, so I would avoid mount points starting with /mnt/
> to keep them from polluting my backup system.

I believe the recommended way to list filesystems (for many Fedoras) is
to use findmnt.  This should be easy to use:

  $ findmnt -l -o FSTYPE,TARGET | grep -E 'ext|ntfs|fat|xfs'

Hope this helps,

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Suvayu

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