Am 22.11.2012 22:34, schrieb M. Fioretti: > 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
i am using rsync since many years in any environment for backups, for sync folders, for sync TB's of data all over the world adding a trailing slash /media/Verbatim/photo/ would cause NEVER EVER another "photo" folder to appear inside /media/Verbatim/photo/
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