Re: rsync

[Tom Furie <tom@lamont.cysoft.net>]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 05:19:28PM +0200, Allan Andersen wrote:
 
> rsync -av ftp.sunet.se::pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian/dists/potato/
> /home/ftp/linux/distributions/debian/dists/
This line should be enough since from the man page:

   -a, --archive
          This is equivalent to -rlptg. It is a quick way  of
          saying  you  want  recursion  and  want to preserve
          everything.

          Note: if the user launching rsync is root then  the
          -o (preserve uid) and -D (preserve devices) options
          are also implied.

Also, you probably don't want to use the verbose option if running from
cron unless you are redirecting output.

Cheers,
Tom