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Copy the whole root filesystem excluding pseudo-filesystems and mountpoints
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Copying the whole linux root filesystem locally or remotely using rsync

Explanation of chosen options:

  • Verbose output with speed and progress information
  • Try to preserve all possible information: file attrs, hardlinks, ACLs and extended attrs,
  • Exclude contents of pseudo-filesystems and mountpoints
  • In this example source host is remote and destination local.
rsync --info=progress2  -vaHAX --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} source.host:/ /local/destination
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