Help Using Luckbackup - Why did it delete source data?

[Xplorer4x4]

Last time I tried to use luckybackup, it deleted files on the source location, and it didn't even back up half the data. It backed up alot of folders but I don't think it actually recursed. I need to do a lot of data migration this weekend, so I think using rsync through luckbackup is the best option. I am just worried about deleting the source data as I want to do that manually AFTER verifying the data has been transfered properly. I tried looking through the manual but it mentions nothing about deleting data from the source. I am guessing I used some bad combination of commands. In this case luckybackup reports the rsync cli is:

rsync -h --progress --stats -r -tgo -p -l -D --update --exclude=**/*tmp*/ --exclude=**/*cache*/ --exclude=**/*Cache*/ --exclude=**~ --exclude=/mnt/*/** --exclude=/media/*/** --exclude=**/lost+found*/ --exclude=/var/** --exclude=/proc/** --exclude=/dev/** --exclude=/sys/** --exclude=**/*Trash*/ --exclude=**/*trash*/ /media/WD3 /media/WD3TB/

[james147]

-r -tgo -p -l -D[/CODE]

Can be simplified to

-a, --archive               archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X)

I tend to use

-P                          same as --partial --progress

Which means you don't need --progress and it allows larger files to be resumed quicker if the process is interrupted.

I have never had rsync delete source data... could be that something else triggered and deleted the data?

It does have the following option, but you are clearly not using it...

            --remove-source-files   sender removes synchronized files (non-dir)

Also as a side note, the trailing / on the source is important as it has a specific meaning:

...
       A  trailing  slash on the source changes this behavior to avoid creating an additional directory level at the destination.
       You can think of a trailing / on a source as meaning "copy the contents of this directory" as opposed to "copy the  direc‐
       tory by name", but in both cases the attributes of the containing directory are transferred to the containing directory on
       the destination.  In other words, each of the following commands copies the files in the same way, including their setting
       of the attributes of /dest/foo:


              rsync -av /src/foo /dest
              rsync -av /src/foo/ /dest/foo
...

[Xplorer4x4]

Thanks for the tips James, but I am not using rsync directly. Yes I realize luckybackup seems to just be a gui for rsync, but imo it is worth noting with regards to the source data being deleted. Could something else be the culprit? Very unlikely. It happened right after getting done using luckybackup once(note I was not using the same command as above, well I should say I can not verify that it was the same options as my op). The likely hood of me doing something something else extremely ignorant such as cd / && sudo rm -fr * is unlikely. Plus the root file structure was intact as was Kubuntu itself. It actually just seemed to have deleted every single user installed application(and it's corresponding files) on my system. I suspected that I had checked something obvious in luckybackup that triggered this, but nothing in the gui says to me "clicking this adds the '--remove-source-files' option to the command line.

[Xplorer4x4]

rsync -h --progress --stats -r -tgo -p -l -D --exclude=**/*tmp*/ --exclude=**/*cache*/ --exclude=**/*Cache*/ --exclude=**~ --exclude=/mnt/*/** --exclude=/media/*/** --exclude=**/lost+found*/ --exclude=**/*Trash*/ --exclude=**/*trash*/ / /media/WD3/~Kubuntu/xplorer4x4-backup/

I am trying to back up my boot drive. When it hits the proc folder, it starts trying to back up huge amounts of data over 100GB, but yet my boot drive only holds about 12GB worth of data. I am trying to make a back up before upgrading to Quantal.

[james147]

rsync -h --progress --stats -r -tgo -p -l -D --exclude=**/*tmp*/ --exclude=**/*cache*/ --exclude=**/*Cache*/ --exclude=**~ --exclude=/mnt/*/** --exclude=/media/*/** --exclude=**/lost+found*/ --exclude=**/*Trash*/ --exclude=**/*trash*/ / /media/WD3/~Kubuntu/xplorer4x4-backup/

I am trying to back up my boot drive. When it hits the proc folder, it starts trying to back up huge amounts of data over 100GB, but yet my boot drive only holds about 12GB worth of data. I am trying to make a back up before upgrading to Quantal.

Don't backup the /proc folder, it is a special mount location like /dev or /sys or /run (it exists in memory only). You should be able to tell luckybackup to skip system folders like these.

[Xplorer4x4]

var, dev, proc, and sys are all safe to skip?

Ok ignore that...was in a hurry, didn't read carefully.

[james147]

not var, you should back that one up