title: Server Backup
category: Sysadmin
time: 1731249116242
---

## `rsync`
```
rsync --archive --one-file-system --hard-links \
  --acls --xattrs --sparse \
  --human-readable --numeric-ids --delete --delete-excluded \
  --itemize-changes --verbose --progress \
  --exclude='*~' \
  --exclude-from=root.exclude \
  src dest
```