Paul: Thanks very much for the time to help:
> The first two could be combined as the destination dir is the same; > to combine the rest you have to do things with --relative, which > might make things more confusing if you're not familiar with rsync: > > rsync -aH --relative /etc/named /etc/some.conf /home/bill /home/james/somedocument remoteserver:/home/testuser/backup/ Well, I just gave some sample files for my question that would cover the cases expect to encounter. I actually have a much longer list of them. I'll be doing this just periodically, not automatically and I'd prefer to not set it up with auto-login keys. So doing them one at a time would not be my preference if I can work around it. > > Ideally, a file where I could place a list of what I wanted to rsync > > would be nice. > > For that, there's the --files-from option, the list could be generated > with e.g. find. This is what I'm after. Can you show me an example? I know how to use basic find commands, but if I get a list of the files and directories in a file can I feed that list to rsync? For example if my file list was in /tmp/mybackuplist with the file contents of: /etc/named/1 /etc/named/2 /etc/named/3 /etc/named/4 /etc/named/5 /etc/some.conf /home/bill/6 /home/james/somedocument assuming that will work, can you show me the command syntax for using files-from? With me on the source server sending files to the remote server at /home/testuser/backup/ ? And ideally on the remote server, have the directory structure duplicated, i.e. in this example the remote will have: /home/testuser/backup/etc /home/testuser/backup/home /home/testuser/backup/home/bill /home/testuser/backup/home/james directories. Thanks again! Scott -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
