[gentoo-user] Re: rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-27 Thread reader
Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Also I am getting a lot of errors and the backup is finishing early and not producing the stats. i.e. rsync: symlink /mnt/external/OneFileSystemBackup/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib/libopcodes.so -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-27 Thread Paul Stear
Neil has handled this... I wanted to include the rsync syntax to collect only directories... full or empty: So to collect all the directories regardless of your excludes put this before any excludes: --include=/**/ The trailing slash confines it to direcotories only. Thanks for the

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-26 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:07:38 +, Paul Stear wrote: --one-file-system Still not sure what the above will produce, I didn't find the man page very readable. Take sys for example, if it is saying that the directory would be created, would I