Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> That was a scary lesson that I learned tonight. I'm
burning a backup
>>> now, and I'll be learning rsync tonight...
>>>
>> This is an rsync command that my wife and I both use on our laptops
>> everytime we get home to our local network.
>>
>> /usr/bin/rsync -e ssh -avzp --exclude "/home/eagle1/.ssh" --delete
>> /home/eagle1 / /ns2.local.net:/prtdata/
> I would suggest using the -n option to rsync to test things before you
> run it on a live filesystem. Leaving a / off of the end of a path in rsync
> can be disasterous. It has saved my life many times.
>
I'll keep that in mind. Thanks.
Whenever possible, I like to cd into the source directory and
rsync -essh -av . remote_host:/path/to/target
so I don't have to remember which way the magic trailing / works. And if
there is any chance of hitting mount points I use --one-file-system and
repeat separately with any I wanted to include.
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Les Mikesell
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