I'm just starting to learn about rsync. My use is to backup one hard
drive to another (newer) hard drive. I've read through the man file,
the rsync site, several googled posts, and have read this forum for a
few days, and I still have some questions.
The initial copy over was simply 'cp $SOURCE
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 03:16:13PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:29:45PM -0800, William D. Tallman wrote:
> > And I got it that I could remove -t and --size-only from subsequent
> > backup runs.
>
> No, you don't want to eliminate -t, as pr
I've now got scripts that correctly backup all my primary partitions to a
second drive. The original problem was that I copied them over without
a time stamp, so that the first rsync run found no timestamps and wanted
to copy them all over again. So I used:
'rsync -r -t -v --size-only $
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:02:18PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:18:39PM -0700, William D. Tallman wrote:
> > My question is this: do I need to continue to use --size-only, or has
> > the first rsync backup run put time stamps on all files?
>
> Yo
