Thread: Nokia N900 Full Backup
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j.s is offline j.s
2009-12-13 , 07:31
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#11
Originally Posted by dukenukem View Post
rsync -avHl --exclude-from=/media/mmc1/sync_exclude / /media/mmc1/backup

that saved my *** a couple of times...
I assume the filesystem on /media/mmc1 needs to support hard and symbolic links and special files?

Can the /dev tree be backed up that way?

I thought there are problems trying to back up or restore a root filesystem that is booted and running.