but doesn't '~' merely extrapolate to '/home'?
Yes, it does, but it happens *IN* the shell *BEFORE* it gets to 'rsync'.
Read 'bash globbing' for more information, that's something that you *WANT*
to know.
The '/' at the of the source reads as 'the contents of this directory'.
Without it, it reads as 'this directory'.
The consecuence is that if:
Run a few tests to understand how it works.
ET
Michael Havens writes:
but doesn't '~' merely extrapolate to '/home'?
further, what does putting the slash '/' at the end of the destination
directory do (rather than just saying '/dest/i/nation' <w/o the trailing
slash>)?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote:
thanks, buddy!
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:14 AM, [email protected] <
[email protected]> wrote:
Mike, read the man pages, your syntax is wrong and it is clearly stated
when you:
$ man rsync
With that said, the syntax that you are concerned with in this instance
is:
rsync [OPTION...] SRC... [USER@]HOST:DEST
A couple of details that may bite you:
Don't rely on '~' to address a directory on the destination box.
The '~' will be interpreted by the shell before the command is handed to
'rsync' and, if the tree in both boxes don't match, you'll get a mysterious
error that won't make sense until you realize that 'bash globbing' is
handing your 'rsync' the wrong path'
That is also valid for:
--exclude=.*mozilla*
if '.*mozilla*' resolves to more than one path you will get interesting
(and undecipherable) error messages.
I would do it as:
--exclude='.*mozilla*'
So, the 'proper' construction would something like:
$ rsync -vva \
--exclude='/home/bmike1/**Pictures/*' \
--exclude='.*mozilla*' \
--exclude='.*chromium*' \
[email protected]:/home/xbmc/**backupdirectoryname
And remember:
if you have any question,
you will get any answer... :)
ET
Michael Havens writes:
I want to have a backup of the hard drives of the computers in my house
on
the other computer. What I was doing before is making each ~ identical.
Would the following command give me the desired effect?
rsync -vva --exclude=/home/bmike1/**Pictures/* --exclude=.*mozilla*
--exclude=.*chromium* ~/* *[email protected]:/home/xbmc/***
backupdirectoryname*;
rsync -vva --exclude=/home/bmike1/**Pictures/* --exclude=.*mozilla*
--exclude=.*chromium* [email protected]:/home/xbmc/
*~/backupdirectoryname*
*
*
is this correct?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
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