On 2008-02-09, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [rsync] -av /home.orig/* /home/ (this will save symlink and > permissions and other stuff )
Some good practices with rsync: - if you've got doubt about the command line, run rsync -nv (+ other options) in order to get it to do a dry run (print out what it is going to do, but take no action) - pass the -x flag (rsync -avnx for the dry-run, rsync -avx or rsync -ax for the real deal) for moving data between partitions and the like: -x limits it to one filesyste -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
