Hal Vaughan wrote: > > rsync -av server::Data /MacRAID/Data/ (Forgot if that one required the > "/" at the end or not. Whichever I used, it did copy directly to that > directory without creating an extra subdirectory.)
$> rsync <option> /source/path /dest will transfer the directory "path" into /dest directory on the remote machine. You will contet /dest/path at the remote machine. $> rsync <option> /source/path/ /dest will transfer only the contents of the "path" directory to the remote machine. You will get /dest/<contents of "path" of source machine> The trailing slash matters only on the source specification. Thus, with the trailing slash, the contents of the path directory are transfered, and without it the directory itself is. > and it copied all the files from the RAID on the server to the RAID on > my iMac. Of course they were different user names. In the past I used > NIS on my LAN to keep user names the same. Now that I'm done with the > setup, the data on the iMac RAID will change more often and the server > is essentially a back-up. > > Today it was finally time to set up rsync to do regular backups from my > workstation to the server, so I tried: > > rsync -avn /MacRAID/Data/ m...@server:Data (Thanks to H.S. for that help > in another recent thread.) Try the options -auvn Search the man page for "-u" to see what it means. Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
