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Include Root Partition

Asked by Comm

I have tried inputting "/" as an included directory (and excluding /proc/, /dev/, etc) but SBackup doesn't include any files, it returns "0 files". However, if I have "/home/" as included it returns the correct number of files.

How can I just have "/" as an include to backup my entire system?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

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Comm (alec-christie) said : 		#2

Seriously no-one wants to backup their root directory and exclude from there?

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Comm (alec-christie) said : 		#3

For information to anyone else who tries to do this (and why no-one here couldn't help I don't know) you need to put "//" and not "/" to include the root directory.

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Michael Dougherty (maackle-d) said : 		#4

Thanks, I was wondering the same thing. How non-intuitive!

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Comm (alec-christie) said : 		#5

Glad my findings helped someone!