On 06/15/2018 02:14 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 06/14/18 17:23, Bob Goodwin wrote: >>> There's always more than one way to do it. >> + >> Yes, and you have probably provided what I was looking for, I'll try >> exporting it as you suggest, probably tomorrow and report back. > + > > I've got this working except > > # rsync -avr /home/exports/ /mnt/test/backups/ > produces copies of directories devoid of files. > > It looks like I have to do: > > # rsync -avr /home/exports/* /mnt/test/backups/ > > The -r is supposed to get everything recursively but but it did not get > the files without the "*" ... The "-r" is redundant, as "-a" is equivalent to "-rlptgoD" > With your help I had enough confidence to experiment with the NFS > exports and the backup disk appears to be working as I wanted. /dev/sdb1 > appears to have a complete copy of the data stored on /dev/sdb1 for a > backup. And I can access it from an Fedora 27 workstation. > > I am still wondering why rsync did not copy everything recursively > without the asterisk? Without the "*", rsync is going to be governed by its pattern rules as shown in rsync's man page section "INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES". Even though it may get confusing, pay extra attention to the notes about the "-r" flag in that section. The main idea is that you anchored the source to /home/exports, and as rsync walks down the tree, the subdirectories don't start at /home/exports (they're children of it) and the files in them are excluded. It'll create the directories on the target since the directory names themselves are in /home/exports, but not their content. When you put in the "*", the shell expanded the list of directories in /home/exports and passed all of them to rsync. So if you had: /home/exports/a /home/exports/b The command the shell actually invoked was rsync -avr /home/exports/a /home/exports/b /mnt/test/backups (note that the last element on the command line is the destination to rsync...everything else is a source). The cheap and dirty fix is: rsync -av /home/exports --include="exports/***" /mnt/test/backups or cd /home/exports rsync -av /mnt/test/backups The first one utilizes rsync's include pattern matching rules. The argument to "--include=" is in quotes so the shell doesn't expand the "*"s in it. Also note that the trailing "/" on the destination as you had it is unnecessary but shouldn't hurt anything. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Blech! ACKth! Ooop! -- Bill the Cat (Outland) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/POVGY4UGEK7WNEBCJZMNJRRCSKSPCOSE/
