Hi John,
> -a includes -r so you don't need both
> -v gives you more output.
> -c makes it checksum the files rather than looking only at file size
...
> -H include hard links
> -A include ACLS (extended file permissions)
> -X include xattrs
My mnemonic list of options to start with has grown to
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 t
( crossing with John's post, and largely consistent with it... :-)
Ralph's right that you can probably use 'cp' rather than rsync, but it's
not a great overhead and would mean that you could then do the same another
time to keep b up to date with a. You need to have the 'recursive' option
set for
Hi Clive-
I find with commands like Rsync I remember recipes and use them all the
time.
I used to use *rsync -avcz *for everything ...
-a includes -r so you don't need both
-v gives you more output.
-c makes it checksum the files rather than looking only at file size and
datestamp, so is safer bu
Hi Clive,
> sudo rsync -r -a sda3/home sdb4/home
Since source and destination are on the same machine, and you're not
trying to update an old copy to match an original that's since changed,
you may as well use cp(1).
Probably,
sudo cp -a --preserve=all --sparse=always /home /mnt/sdb4/home
Please can anyone confirm the following statement as I've not used rsync
before.
sudo rsync -r -a sda3/home sdb4/home
I'm trying to copy the Home folder (on sda3) containing 2 users onto
another disc (sdb4) mounted in the same computer (ie not remote). I
want to keep all permissions on all f
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