Re: evaluating backup systems: rsync

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On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:25 AM, keshab mahapatra <ping2kpm@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> rsync -v -d root@192.168.200.10:/var/lib/ .
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> Use rsync -d option to synchronize only directory tree from source to
> the destination. The below example, synchronize only directory tree in
> recursive manner, not the files in the directories
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>From the rsync manpage:
-d, --dirs                  transfer directories without recursing

How does the rsync -d option help us here?
Transferring directories _only_ and not recursing isn't all that useful.
 Generally there are files in directories that are necessary to back up.

I don't see an example here.


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