rsnapshot backups

[zkab]

I am going to use 'rsnapshot' to create backups of my local & remote computers. My intension is that I can use these backups to restore disk images when needed -> install Linux from scratch and then copy the subdirectories from 'rsnapshot' backup to the new Linux installation.
My question is ... what subdirectories should be excluded in the backup. Now I have following excluded ... but are they the right ones or have I missed something:

exclude /proc
exclude /lost+found
exclude /mnt
exclude /media
exclude /sys
exclude /home/lost+found
exclude /tmp

[tornow]

I am going to use 'rsnapshot' to create backups of my local & remote computers. My intension is that I can use these backups to restore disk images when needed -> install Linux from scratch and then copy the subdirectories from 'rsnapshot' backup to the new Linux installation.
My question is ... what subdirectories should be excluded in the backup. Now I have following excluded ... but are they the right ones or have I missed something:

exclude /proc
exclude /lost+found
exclude /mnt
exclude /media
exclude /sys
exclude /home/lost+found
exclude /tmp

I exclude the same directories, so as far i know that is correct.

[zkab]

What about 'exclude /dev'

[tornow]

Sorry, you are right. I shouldn't trust "manual" comparing (especially not when tired).
Here is my command:

rsync -auv -n --delete-after \
--exclude="/home/markus/[a-zA-Z0-9]*" \
--exclude="/home/markus/.VirtualBox/*" \
--exclude="/home/xepanche/[a-zA-Z0-9]*" \
--exclude="/proc/*" \
--exclude="/lost+found/*" \
--exclude="/dev/*" \
--exclude="/mnt/*" \
--exclude="/media/*"  \
--exclude="/sys/*" \
--exclude="/tmp/*" \
/ /media/backup >dry.txt

It excludes the users data, but not the configs.

[zkab]

Forgot to ask one thing.
What subdirectories from / should be included in the backup ?

ls -l / gives:

/bin
/boot
/etc
/initrd.img
/initrd.img.old
/lib
/opt
/root
/sbin
/selinux
/srv
/usr
/var
/vmlinuz
/vmlinuz.old

[tornow]

I exclude what i posted in my last post, so all the rest gets "included"
For me that works, and it works good.

I think my Backup is less than 5GB (and way less), so it ain't much of a problem anyway.

I did never use rsnapshot though.

[zkab]

That sounds OK to include all except the 'exclude' stuff