Re: Rsync Insists on Replacing Files

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

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/ me@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.


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