<div dir="ltr">thanks!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Brian Cluff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Use --delete if you want the destination to have any files that have been deleted from the source to also deleted in the destination.<br>
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The -q option just suppresses any output that isn't an error, I tend to leave it off do that I can see what file it's currently working on. You can add or remove it as needed.<br>
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Brian Cluff<span class=""><br>
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On 09/21/2015 03:42 AM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
what about the -q option and the --delete option? i noticed that you<br>
didn't use them in your command 'rsync -auW /sort/directory<br>
/dest/directory/'.<br>
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On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Brian Cluff <<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a><br></span><div><div class="h5">
<mailto:<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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If you are backing up locally you will want to do things a little<br>
different size as:<br>
<br>
rsync -auW /sort/directory /dest/directory/<br>
<br>
You will want to skip the -z option and the corresponding<br>
--compress-level option. Since you are doing copying everything<br>
locally that will only cause the machine to compress and immediately<br>
decompress every file that is copied wasting a ton of CPU/power.<br>
<br>
The other thing you will want to do is use the -W flag, that tells<br>
the machine to copy whole files instead of looking for what has<br>
changed between the documents. That way it can look at the time<br>
and/or size and if it's changed it will just copy the whole file.<br>
Without that flag it would read through both the source and<br>
destination file and then just copy the differences by writing a<br>
whole new file, so with the -W (whole file) flag the machine just<br>
reads/writes the file once and is a lot more efficient/faster.<br>
<br>
This can also be a good flag to set on fast networks since it can be<br>
a lot faster just to re-copy the whole file than it is to have the<br>
hard drive reading the file multiple times.<br>
<br>
The progress flag is very nice, but unless you are planning on<br>
closely monitoring your copy, I would skip it as I've found that it<br>
tends to slow down the transfer... or at least make it feel that<br>
way, like a watched pot never boils :)<br>
<br>
On your slash at end end question. A slash at the end tends to mean<br>
that you want to put the source files/dirs into that directory and a<br>
destination without a slash usually means that you want to rename<br>
your source file/directory to that destination file/dir name.<br>
<br>
Lastly the -h option gives you the sizes in easily readable terms or<br>
in other words, instead of just giving you the size in bytes it will<br>
give you size that look like 100K 2.4M 1.8G<br>
<br>
Brian Cluff<br>
<br>
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On 09/20/2015 05:34 AM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
<br>
I know how to use rsync (sorta) to backup a disk and go between<br>
remote<br>
machines. With my current incarnation of the os I'm not so<br>
worried about<br>
backing up the whole system as I am a directory (and all of the<br>
directories under it) nor copying between remote machines. The<br>
directory<br>
is the 'Documents' directory. Would I:<br>
<br>
rsync -aquz --compress-level=5 /home/bmike1/Documents<br>
/media/bmike1/USB<br>
DISK/<br>
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