<div class="gmail_quote">On 1 October 2012 10:45, Simon Hobson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk" target="_blank">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">Josu Lazkano wrote:<br>
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I have a internal USB adapter, so I will add USB LiveCD to perform<br>
some partition backups. Is this a good idea?<br>
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My preference is to do file-level backups.<br></blockquote><div><br>+1 for this.<br><br>Always done this kind of backup for Linux machines, the main reason, as Simon said, you don't need to shutdown the machine.<br><br>
I don't use rsync, although it might be better. I use this command, to an external HDD:<br><br>tar cvpzf /media/mediadrive/backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys --exclude=/media --exclude=/var/lib/mythtv/recordings --exclude=/var/lib/mythtv/pictures --exclude=/var/lib/mythtv/music --exclude=/var/lib/mythtv/videos --exclude=/var/lib/mythtv/livetv --exclude=/var/lib/mytharchive --exclude=/home/user/.local/share/Trash --exclude=/home/user/Desktop/BACKUP-MYTHTV1 /<br>
<br>Martin<br></div></div>