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• rsyncrsnapshot
• Jonathan Haack
• Haack's Networking
• netcmnd@jonathanhaack.com

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sudo rsync -avxHAX --progress --delete /sourcefiles/path /backup/path

Adding h, H, P, will preserve hard links, give you human readable output, and show the progress (eliminating the need for –progress).

sudo rsync -avxHAXhHP --delete /sourcefiles/path /backup/path

Cloning entire drives, use:

sudo rsync -avxHAXhHP --delete /sourcefiles/path /backup/path --exclude={/dev/*,/proc/*,/sys/*,/tmp/*,/run/*,/mnt/*,/media/*,/lost+found}

If the drive you are cloning from has a different filesystem than the destination drive, you can remove the exclusions as -x will handle those exclusions in that case.