On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Faisal Fiza
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok..
> Im new in GNU/LINUX,
>

Every one was new to Linux at some time or the other
welcome abroad :-)

>so im comfortable with 'cp'. I haired about 'rsync'
> only after you told about it.
>
>Now i turned to rsync :-)
>

even the rsync command I gave you

#rsync -av /mnt/home /home

was wrong :-(

it will do the same as the cp command I gave you.


it should be

#rsync -av /mnt/home/ /home/

the / at the end of directory names is needed to get the result you wanted.

when you get time take a good look at

'unison' also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unison_%28file_synchronizer%29

--Siju

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