rsync

[Michael Havens]

but doesn't '~' merely extrapolate to '/home'?
further, what does putting the slash '/' at the end of the destination
directory do (rather than just saying '/dest/i/nation' <w/o the trailing
slash>)?
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> thanks, buddy!
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:14 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
> kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>
>> Mike, read the man pages, your syntax is wrong and it is clearly stated
>> when you:
>> $ man rsync
>> With that said, the syntax that you are concerned with in this instance
>> is:
>> rsync [OPTION...] SRC... [USER@]HOST:DEST
>> A couple of details that may bite you:
>> Don't rely on '~' to address a directory on the destination box.
>> The '~' will be interpreted by the shell before the command is handed to
>> 'rsync' and, if the tree in both boxes don't match, you'll get a mysterious
>> error that won't make sense until you realize that 'bash globbing' is
>> handing your 'rsync' the wrong path'
>> That is also valid for:
>> --exclude=.*mozilla*
>> if '.*mozilla*' resolves to more than one path you will get interesting
>> (and undecipherable) error messages.
>> I would do it as:
>> --exclude='.*mozilla*'
>> So, the 'proper' construction would something like:
>> $ rsync -vva \
>>    --exclude='/home/bmike1/**Pictures/*' \
>>    --exclude='.*mozilla*' \
>>    --exclude='.*chromium*' \
>>        xbmc at 192.168.0.3:/home/xbmc/**backupdirectoryname
>> And remember:
>> if you have any question,
>> you will get any answer...    :)
>> ET
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael Havens writes:
>>
>>> I want to have a backup of the hard drives of the computers in my house
>>> on
>>> the other computer. What I was doing before is making each ~ identical.
>>> Would the following command give me the desired effect?
>>> rsync -vva --exclude=/home/bmike1/**Pictures/* --exclude=.*mozilla*
>>> --exclude=.*chromium* ~/* *xbmc at 192.168.0.3:/home/xbmc/***
>>> backupdirectoryname*;
>>> rsync -vva --exclude=/home/bmike1/**Pictures/* --exclude=.*mozilla*
>>> --exclude=.*chromium* xbmc at 192.168.0.3:/home/xbmc/
>>> *~/backupdirectoryname*
>>> *
>>> *
>>> is this correct?
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
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