> I have two fat32 formatted external drives (on the localhost) that > need sync'ing. Each of the drives contain different files. The end > result I'm looking for is two identical disks. > > My question is whether or not I can encapsulate this process in a one > liner with rsync or if i need to make two independent calls to rsync > as follows: > > rsync -av /path/to/source /path/to/dest && rsync -av /path/to/dest > /path/to/source > > In the situation above, the dest has files that do not exist on the > source, hence the second call to rsync... >
This will only work if the files on each disk are not common. Otherwise if you update a file on dest it will get overwritten by the first sync from source. CH -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
