On 21/07/15 13:07, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
> 
> So:
> *rsync -avHAX sda3/home sdb4/home *will copy the home directory itself to
> sdb4/home/home
> *rsync -avHAX sda3/home/ sdb4/home *will copy the *contents* of the home
> directory to sdb4/home
> 
> I expect the latter is what you want.
> 

If there are large files therein then the --progress option can
give you re-assuring feedback too :-)

Simon


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