Re: [SLE] rsync syntax help

On Wednesday 29 March 2006 13:34, Ken Schneider wrote:
[snip]

I would use rsync -varpltz --stats /home/hylton/ /media/backup/home

Make sure you include a closing / on the source so that you get a
recursive copy.
That's not what the closing / does. According to the man page, a trailing /
on the source changes the behavior so that "You can think of a trailing / on
a source as meaning 'copy the contents of this directory' as opposed to
'copy the directory by name' " Recursive copying is controlled by -r.

In your example, the contents of /home/hylton would be copied
to /media/backup/home. There would be no /media/backup/home/hylton directory
created--probably not what the OP expects.

Jim

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