Re: /home is symlinked to /usr/home - question about backups

2006-03-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Pat Maddox wrote: I got a dedicated server a while ago, and it came with /home symlinked to /usr/home. I'm not entirely sure why, to tell you the truth, but it's never posed a problem. However if I run rsync -avz to back up my server, it creates something like this: /backup/march/19/home -

Re: /home is symlinked to /usr/home - question about backups

2006-03-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Pat Maddox wrote: However if I run rsync -avz to back up my server, it creates something like this: /backup/march/19/home - /usr/home So if I were to go to /backup/march/19 and rm -rf * wouldn't it go and delete everything in /usr/home? Should add: In you shell, alias rm to rm -i which

/home is symlinked to /usr/home - question about backups

2006-03-19 Thread Pat Maddox
I got a dedicated server a while ago, and it came with /home symlinked to /usr/home. I'm not entirely sure why, to tell you the truth, but it's never posed a problem. However if I run rsync -avz to back up my server, it creates something like this: /backup/march/19/home - /usr/home So if I