backup drive

[davidwillis]

ok, I gave it a shot... here is the last of the output:
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var/spool/anacron/
rsync: send_files failed to open "/var/spool/anacron/cron.daily": Permission denied (13)
rsync: send_files failed to open "/var/spool/anacron/cron.monthly": Permission denied (13)
rsync: send_files failed to open "/var/spool/anacron/cron.weekly": Permission denied (13)
var/spool/at/
var/spool/cron/
var/spool/cups/
var/spool/lpd/
var/spool/mail/
var/spool/repackage/
var/spool/samba/
var/yp/

Number of files: 141437
Number of files transferred: 119707
Total file size: 15361664696 bytes
Total transferred file size: 15385860114 bytes
Literal data: 13858070576 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 3206648
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 13867967691
Total bytes received: 2370500

sent 13867967691 bytes received 2370500 bytes 21421371.72 bytes/sec
total size is 15361664696 speedup is 1.11
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1040) [sender=3.0.4]
umount: /media/backup is not in the fstab (and you are not root)

here is the script:

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umount /dev/sdb2
echo Mounting $disk
mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb2 /media/backup
rsync -av --stats --delete --exclude=/media/ --exclude=/mnt/ / /media/backup
umount /media/backup



it looks like it is missing some files because of permissions... should I run it as root?

Thanks
David

[Ben Cotton]

it looks like it is missing some files because of permissions... should I run it as root?

That depends on if you care about the files that get skipped. If not, I wouldn't bother. If you want to make sure those files get backed up, then go ahead an run it as root.

[davidwillis]

Thanks... I think I got it now