<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 February 2015 at 10:24, Daryl McDonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darylangela@gmail.com" target="_blank">darylangela@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Greetings Mythizens, as a result of my DB problems I'm wondering if I can overwrite my / directory with a backup I made by following this wiki: <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/full_system_backup_with_rsync" target="_blank">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/full_system_backup_with_rsync</a> I also have a DB backup that I could restore through MCC (which doesn't work in current setup) and be up and running again? If this is a good idea how would I go about accomplishing it?<div>My OS is on a separate 32 Gb SSD and recordings etc go to two 1TB drives, rsync is on a flash drive as well as on one of the storage drives.</div><div><br></div><div>TIA Daryl</div></div>
<br><br></blockquote><div>yeah you should be able to do this fairly easily<br><br></div><div> I've used the following command to rsync backup one host to another, you should be able to restore a rsync backup in a the similar way <br><br>/usr/bin/rsync --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys --exclude=/dev --exclude=/boot --exclude=/etc/fstab -e ssh -vazvH / root@hostname<br></div></div><br>if its local you should not need the -e ssh<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">ie. something like <br>/usr/bin/rsync --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/mnt
--exclude=/sys --exclude=/dev --exclude=/boot --exclude=/etc/fstab -vazvH <source path> <destination path><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,<br><br>Anthony<br></div></div>