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Examples of Bash Cookbook

BashCookbook

Examples of Bash Cookbook

Useful Bash commands

To Backup and Restore your system

1. Creating backup using rsync

sudo rsync -aAXv --delete --exclude=/dev/* --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/sys/* --exclude=/tmp/* --exclude=/run/* --exclude=/mnt/* --exclude=/media/* --exclude="swapfile" --exclude="lost+found" --exclude=".cache" --exclude="Downloads" --exclude=".VirtualBoxVMs" --exclude=".ecryptfs" /source /destination

2. Restore data using rsync

sudo rsync -aAXv --delete --exclude="lost+found" /backup /system

NOTE : --delete option specifies that we only restore files which got deleted in /system (only diff is backed up)