Hi there!

I used to make weekly backups with rsync, that was under Debian 7 and Slackware 14.

A few weeks ago I installed Debian 10 and made a fresh complete backup of my home directory to a new 4 TB USB disk using 'cp -arv /home /media/backup' and went on using my backup script.

Yesterday I had to restore some files and saw that my rsync script seems to ignore directorys if they are hidden, e.g.

Did the default globbing setting change between Debian 7 and Debian 10? Does globbing differ between root and user account?

The rsync command in my backup script is
TIA

Gregor

PS:
The log file entry says
and it seems my local documentation doesn't mention the meaning of that '>f.st......' stuff. So, WTF is going on here?

First place I'd look is the rsync man page in your Debian 10 installation.

(There have been quite a lot of changes with the release from Wheezy to Buster.)

Of course that is what I did first. The result is the rsync command I mentioned.

The thing is that files in hidden directories still aren't backed up and the man page doesn't tell me what the entry in the log file means.

:-/

Gregor

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Great! Thanks a lot!

I was looking for a separate chapter on log things.

Gregor

the documentation of rsync is huge, you can try the official site: https://rsync.samba.org/documentation.html.
Also you may try the rsync mailing list.

PS: I am already thinking of writing a new backup script - a 'cp -avr' part for my home directory excluding subdirectories with mounted disks (like '~/dokumente/datensammlung' or '~/test') and an rsync part for the rest (which don't contain hidden things anyway).

Ooops. Something went wrong with my quoting.

you can find a ready-made backup tool (rsync based) if you wish (on the net). Also you may try incremental backup and other tricks to make it faster.

Speed is not a problem - not at all. I do my backups during night time on mon/tue. They usually take less than a half hour.

Thx again!

Gregor