Bas Mevissen posted on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:31:21 +0200 as excerpted: > On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:35:30 -0700, Joe Zeff > <ahnkna...@zeff.us> wrote: > > rsync -avr j...@khorlia.zeff.us:~/.pan2 > ~/.pan2 > > > You might add --delete to remove older no longer existing files from the > destination. But take care that the dest is not $HOME or / :-)
That's what -n/--dry-run is for. =:^) I run Gentoo on my netbook but build/install all the updates in a 32-bit chroot on my main (otherwise 64-bit) amd64 machine. I then ssh/rsync across to the netbook, using a script with the appropriate options to do the right thing with symlinks, device-files, etc, and feeding it an exclude-file. By default, it adds -n so it only does a dry-run. I always run it that way first, checking what it spits out to change before I add the last (optional) script parameter, which deletes the -n on the rsync call, thus making it a LIVE run. The first (dry) run takes a lot of time since it's having to do actual disk accesses to check everything on both sides, but by the time it's done, everything's in cache on both sides, so the actual LIVE run normally takes far less time than the dry-run, even tho the LIVE run has to do the actual writes that are skipped with the dry- run. So I know well what --dry-run does, and yes, it has definitely saved me a number of times when I tried to run the script without the correct partitions mounted on one side or the other. Conclusion: If you care about your data, do the --dry-run first! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
