[clug-talk] Backing up with Rsync: problems

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

Re: [clug-talk] Backing up with Rsync: problems

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