>> Rsync shouldn't mess up the folder structure, I use it to do backups of >> my photos, and there are 1,000's of them in hundreds of folders. >> I'd guess that you've got a dodgy option in there somewhere. >> If the permissions are getting lost, why not just reset them when you've >> rsync'ed the files back to the local drive. >> > > Lee >>> You're right - rsync didn't mess up the directory structure on > the drive; but the 'folders' within Liferea were missing. (Liferea > allows you to 'group' feeds under headings of your choice; and it was > this that didn't get preserved - something going wrong with the Liferea > cache and database files?) > > I may have been misleading by mentioning permissions; I suspect it's > the owner/group information that matters, and that's what's getting lost > (though I'd be the first to admit I don't really understand Unix > ownerships/permissions). > > But frankly reading some news feeds is not a serious enough matter to > spend time reconstructing the data in order to use get a synced view of > Liferea. ;-) > Ah! All you've done is to miss off the 'r' option that recurses into sub folders.
The permission one is easy to fix too. All the files/folders would have belonged to you! So a quick chown command (with the recursive option) will straighten it all out once the rsync has finished... Put them both in the same script file (with the bin/bash command on the first line) and set it executable with a chmod +x and you're done! -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
