Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 16:41:25 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.mailing.list Subject: Re: rsync Message-ID: <200803011641.25757.kline@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <47C9D2E1.9010306@passagen.se> References: <20080301021803.GA26930@thought.org> <200803011336.57193.kline@thought.org> <47C9D2E1.9010306@passagen.se>
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On Saturday 01 March 2008 14:04:17 Roger Olofsson wrote: > 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 Good point. Because in addition to copying files across flavors of 'Nix, I do want to delete the old changes. Especially as my projects evolve. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
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