[vox-tech] rsync as an installation / update tool

[Jonathan Stickel]

Aaron A. King wrote:
> Yeah, rsync -essh is way cool.  
> 
<snip>
> Also, probably you want /var in the exclude list.

Actually, there is much I don't know about the linux file tree yet. 
After a little more thought, I will add these to my exclude list:

tmp/
var/empty/
var/lib/
var/lock/
var/log/
var/mail/
var/run/
var/spool/
var/state/

I can't exclude all of var/ because gentoo uses parts of it to catalogue 
installed programs.

Jonathan


<snip>
>>>
>>>#rsync -va -e ssh --exclude-from=exclude_file --delete-after 
>>>root@gentoo_computer:/ /
>>>
>>>exclude_file
>>>------------
>>>dev/
>>>home/
>>>mnt/
>>>proc/
>>>root/
>>>sys/
>>>etc/fstab
>>>etc/X11/XF86Config
>>>etc/hostname
>>>etc/hosts
>>>etc/conf.d/net
>>>boot/grub/grub.conf
>>>