On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 22:10:04 PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > >>> rsync -rvt --delete --no-o --no-g /home/z/photo/ /media/Verbatim/photo > >> > >> this command has a error > >> the last aparm is missing a trailing slash > > > > Why would that be an error? > > because i had enough cases with rsync over different partitions > where the missing trailing slash resulted in copy the whole data to > the source partition and fill it up
omitting the trailing slash is the way explained by many tutorials and by the rsync documentation itself if what one wants to do is, as in my case, to copy the whole content of /home/z/photo/ inside /media/Verbatim/photo IIRC, adding a trailing slash /media/Verbatim/photo/ would cause another "photo" folder to appear inside /media/Verbatim/photo/, which is not what I want. FWIW, I have never seen errors like the ones you mention. Only this "copy again". The only case in which it does NOT happen is if I run rsync, and then run it again immediately after. If I unmount the drive between the two runs, it does the unneeded copies again (and this only happens for SOME, always the same, files/folders). But in no case I have seen data loss, partition filled and so on Marco -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
