<div dir="ltr">learning all sorts of neat stuff about rsync!<br><div><br></div><div>did you know there is a '--progress' option?</div><div>What exactly does the '-h' option do. I'm thinking I should include it but of what I've read so far a satisfactory explanation hasn't been presented.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">to make the directories identical (say I deleted/moved a file) I would add '--delete' so it would look like:<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">rsync -aquz --compress-level=5 --delete /</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/USB DISK/</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Right?</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I know how to use rsync (sorta) to backup a disk and go between remote machines. With my current incarnation of the os I'm not so worried about backing up the whole system as I am a directory (and all of the directories under it) nor copying between remote machines. The directory is the 'Documents' directory. Would I:<div><br clear="all"><div>rsync -aquz --compress-level=5 /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/USB DISK/</div><span><font color="#888888">-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">:-)~MIKE~(-:</span><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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