Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-28 Thread Erik Norgaard
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Wednesday, September 27, 2006 17:04:39 -0500 Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could use rsync to do this, but It'd probably be easier to get your remote rsync to drop the files in the right directory in the first place. Hmmm...maybe I don't fully understand

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-28 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On September 28, 2006 9:33:39 AM +0200 Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) rsync changes behaviour depending on whether or not you include a trailing / from the man-page: rsync -av /src/foo /dest rsync -av /src/foo/ /dest/foo That I know. works the same way, (and

Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
What's the best way to sync files locally? I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server. Now I'm setting up a new server, so I rsynced to it as well. The files end up in a subdir of my home directory, because my account is being used for the rsync. I've been using cp -R to put

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Charles Swiger
On Sep 27, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: What's the best way to sync files locally? I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server. rsync (as root) works just fine to perform local copies preserving permissions and symlinks and so forth. Other people use a tar pipeline

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 27), Paul Schmehl said: What's the best way to sync files locally? I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server. Now I'm setting up a new server, so I rsynced to it as well. The files end up in a subdir of my home directory, because my account is being

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, September 27, 2006 18:04:40 -0400 Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 27, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: What's the best way to sync files locally? I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server. rsync (as root) works just fine to perform local

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, September 27, 2006 17:04:39 -0500 Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could use rsync to do this, but It'd probably be easier to get your remote rsync to drop the files in the right directory in the first place. Hmmm...maybe I don't fully understand rsync. The files are

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
Paul Schmehl wrote: What's the best way to sync files locally? I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server. Now I'm setting up a new server, so I rsynced to it as well. The files end up in a subdir of my home directory, because my account is being used for the rsync. I've

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paul Schmehl wrote: What's the best way to sync files locally? I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server. Now I'm setting up a new server, so I rsynced to it as well. The files end up in a subdir of my home directory, because my account is being used for the rsync. I've