Am 22.11.2012 22:44, schrieb Reindl Harald: > > > 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/ http://defindit.com/readme_files/rsync_backup.html if you are using /source/ /target/ you do not need to care about any destination folder - /target/ will be a 100% identical copy of the source
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