rsync backup

[Alex Volkov]

Question 1:

May I suggest rdiff-backup, it's a wrapper around rsync that stores
incremental changes. Much more safe and user friendly

Question 2:
Have you tried 'lsusb -v' ? There was a script that parsed the output
showing a nice usb device tree with the respective speeds of each branch,
but I can't find it right now.



On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:02 PM, teddy mills <teddymills-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> I rsync from /home/teddy/ to an external USB hard disk. It works fine.
>
> rsync -avz --delete --exclude-from '/home/teddy/rsync-exclude' /home/teddy
> /media/backup
>
> /home/teddy/rsync-exclude
> .gvfs
>
> (weird .gvfs, I exclude it)
>
>
> /dev/sdb1             459G  301G  136G  69% /media/backup
>
>
> I decided to put a trailing slash on /home/teddy/ and /media/backup/
> and run rsync again. rsync started deleting everything. (--delete) (301GB)
> I stopped it quick that and took out the slashes and reran rsync.
>
> It seems like I am stuck now using it without slashes.
>
> Question1:
> Is there a way I can run rsync with the trailing slashes, without deleting
> everything?
>
> Question2:
> Before I start the backup, I would like to know if I am getting full USB2
> speed.
> How can I do a non-destructive hdparm test?
>
> TIA
>
> Teddy
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