I think they just did that to save some typing. The end result is you'll
do rsync -rvv and then the path to the two folders. You can abbreviate
the folder for your account with a ~ symbol. So the first part would
typically be
rsync -rvv ~/Music
followed by the path to your destination. The destination will be the
path /Volumes/ followed by the name of the external drive. Note that
spaces need to have a reverse slash \ in front of them so it knows not
to interpret the two parts as separate items. So if your second drive
was called My Backup and the folder on there was also called Music then
the full command would be
rsync -rvv ~/Music /Volumes/My\ Backup/Music
But to directly answer your question, you can also use copy paste to put
those paths in. So you could navigate to your backup drive, find the
folder you want to sync to and hit copy, then got to terminal and hit
paste. That will paste in the full path with backslashes or whatever.
CB
On 4/13/12 1:54 AM, Marc Sutton wrote:
This is really helpful. I noticed in the article that it talks about dragging
the origin and destination paths into the terminal window. Does this work with
VO? Thanks.
Marc
On Apr 12, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
I used to do this for my itunes folder with rsync in the terminal but then I
got tired or it and just copied my whole folder over to the external drive.
There is an article on doing this with rsync here:
http://extrafuture.com/2007/06/07/how-to-back-up-your-itunes-music-with-rsync-on-mac-os-x/
Nice thing with rsync is it just copies over whatever is newer so after the
first round it doesn't take nearly as long. rsync is also network aware so you
could copy stuff to a volume on any other computer that supports rsync, which
would be any recent OSX machine.
Could you also accomplish this just with Time Machine?
CB
On 4/11/12 5:49 PM, Marc Sutton wrote:
Hi List,
Has anyone had VoiceOver success with software to mirror a folder to a
harddrive or the reverse? I want to keep my music folder backed up to an
external disc. I have tried File Sync to no avail. Would love to hear people's
recommendations. Thanks.
Marc
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