Nathan W wrote:
> On 06/29/2010 06:58 PM, Nathan W wrote:
>
>> posting this here in the hope someone may catch something i'm missing.
>>
>> i'm trying to teach myself rsync, as the other backup solutions i'd been
>> using don't do diff's, and thus take too long to backup. i've come up w/
>> a functional backup to backup from my laptop to our home network server,
>> but it's goofing when i add it as a cronjob...
>>
>> here's the rsync:
>>
>> ~$ rsync
>> -avz --delete -e "ssh -p 2456" /home/nathan/ --exclude 'Music'
>> nat...@home-net:/media/disk/backups/nathan/
>>
> extra... (sorry, thunderbird killed the last half of the first message
> somehow while giving me grief about server certificate). the issue is
> that when it's put into a cron job, it doesn't exclude the ~/Music
> directory, i've tried phrasing it a few ways ('Music', '~/Music',
> '/home/nathan/Music') and tried replacing the single quotes w/ double
> quotes, no luck.
>
Nathan W
Just a guess off the top ... escape the quotes and double quotes? Just
a guess ...
Regards
Fred James
$ rsync -avz --delete -e \"ssh -p 2456\" /home/nathan/ --exclude \'Music\'
nat...@home-net:/media/disk/backups/nathan/
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