Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:04:17 +0100 From: Roger Olofsson <raggen@passagen.se> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rsync Message-ID: <47C9D2E1.9010306@passagen.se> In-Reply-To: <200803011336.57193.kline@thought.org> References: <20080301021803.GA26930@thought.org> <20080301032550.GA15588@saraswathy.madambakam.org> <200803011336.57193.kline@thought.org>
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Gary Kline skrev: > On Friday 29 February 2008 19:25:50 Girish Venkatachalam wrote: >> On 18:18:06 Feb 29, Gary Kline wrote: >>> Is there a flag I can set to use with rsync to backup every file of >>> /usr/home/* [here on my FBSD desktop] to my Ubuntu desktop that has >>> only /home/*?? >>> >>> Of course, I could always create /usr/home on my other computers. ... >> Your question is not clear to me. >> >> I use >> >> $ rsync -avzp --delete /usr/home/* /home >> >> if that is what you are looking for. > > What does the "--delete" do?! I want to make a complete copy of, say, > /usr/home/kline/* from here [tao] to my Ubuntu server, ethos, which has > a "/home" mountpoint--- in otheer words: /home/kline/*. If the > "--delete /usr/home* /home" syntax will let rsync rewrite /usr/home to /home, > then fine. > > gary > >> -Girish >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > --delete makes sure that if you delete a file on the source, it's also deleted on the mirror. (Tip for those that use rsync to backup Windows machines to FreeBSD - You will most likely have to use --ignore-errors if you are syncing to/from windows machines with --delete.) Just my nickels worth. /R
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