On 06/16/18 05:14, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> # rsync -avr /home/exports/ /mnt/test/backups/
> produces copies of directories devoid of files.
>
> It looks like I have to do:
>
> # rsync -avr /home/exports/*  /mnt/test/backups/
>
> The -r is supposed to get everything recursively but but it did not get the 
> files
> without the "*" ...


FWIW, from the man page....

       -a, --archive               archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X)

so including r in the parameter list is redundant.

My nightly backup uses....

rsync -avz --delete --exclude=*Videos* (a bunch of other excludes) 
/home/egreshko
/syntegra/backups

-- 
Conjecture is just a conclusion based on incomplete information. It isn't a 
fact.

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