agree with Gustin. I mostly use one of
rsync -av
rsync -auv
occasionally add --delete when feeling brave or want to clean out old files
-v or --verbose I affectionately call the 'Oh Shit! C " option
nice first time you try a command and or weren't quite what you
meant :-[
after initial
>From the documentation:
"--help Print a short help page describing the options available in rsync
and exit. For backward-compatibility with older versions of rsync, the
help will also be output if you use the -h option without any other args".
Also from the documentation, having the "r" flag is
I see 2 entries in man rsync. I thought that was the first.
-h, --human-readableoutput numbers in a human-readable
-h, --help show this help (if used after
--daemon)
On Sat, 03 May 2014 10:15:24 -0600
caziz wrote:
> -h is just help. case matter did you mean -H??
>
-h is just help. case matter did you mean -H??
On 14-05-03 07:28 AM, Joe S wrote:
> This is the command I used:
> rsync -avrh --numerical-ids /home/joe /media/backup/
>
> --numerical-ids is the only mistake I can see. /media/backup is
> a second drive that I used for backup. I've used rsync for
This is the command I used:
rsync -avrh --numerical-ids /home/joe /media/backup/
--numerical-ids is the only mistake I can see. /media/backup is
a second drive that I used for backup. I've used rsync for a
number of years and never had a problem before.
On Fri, 02 May 2014 22:50:22 -0600
Bogi wr
Hi Joe,
You should post your complete command line. -avrh does not designate a
deletion of files, --numeric-ids only designates how to transfer the ids of the
owner in terms of user and group, the default is username and group name,
otherwise, it will transfer the numeric values of userid and gr
I did a backup with rsync today and had a problem. I used this command:
rxync -avrh /home/joe /media/backup/
I realized --numerial-ids should have been numeric-ids, but a little to
late. Rsync only copied some of the files over and erased a lot of my
installation in /home and / . I had to reinstal
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