I have never performed a full system backup but have always backed up my /home directory using Grsync. I am now thinking about upgrading fro Jessie to Stretch and want to do a full backup first in case there are problems. This is the command I am trying to run but on execution NOTHING happens. Now error messages, nothing. Can somebody take a look at the command and tell me where I am going wrong?
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# rsync -aAXv --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/home/*/.thumbnails/*","/home/*/.cache/mozilla/*","/home/*/.cache/chromium/*","/home/*/.local/share/Trash/*","/lost+found"} / /media/john/5718-482B/Jessie_BU
The target is an external USB HDD formatted as vfat. Do I need to reformat the drive as ext4? It always worked with Grsync, but perhaps rsync will not write to vfat.
UPDATE: Doing some research and I think the problem is that the USB HDD is formatted as VFAT. I will reformat it to ext4 and see how thing go.
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