Re: rsync backup problems

2011-02-13 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 13:27 +1100, Daryl Sayers wrote: > rsync -x --delete -azHv myremote:/ myremote:/usr myremote:/usr/local > /machines/myremote/ > > This worked EXCEPT the /usr/local/ was put into /machines/myremote/local/ > and not /machines/myremote/usr/local/. You want --relative . -- Ma

rsync backup problems

2011-02-13 Thread Daryl Sayers
I have FreeBSD 7.3 running rsync 3.0.7. I need to backup a remote server to a local drive. This remote server has several filesystems types that dont require backing up, like nfs. If I run the following command: rsync --delete -azHv myremote:/ /machines/myremote/ It will copy ALL filesystems whi