<div dir="ltr">thank you so much for the help guys!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Tom Roche <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Tom_Roche@pobox.com" target="_blank">Tom_Roche@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Michael @ <a href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/lurker/message/20160207.022735.736d654f.en.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.phxlinux.org/lurker/message/20160207.022735.736d654f.en.html</a><br>
<span class="">> I ran this command:<br>
<br>
> rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Pictures /home/bmike1/Music /media/bmike1/Lexar32G<br>
<br>
> and I do not know if it worked.<br>
<br>
</span>For a good first approximation, compare the source and target directories/folders with, e.g., `du -s` and `find | wc -l`. That's also why I would not copy multiple source dirs into one target dir: it complicates that sort of check. Instead drive `rsync` with something like (in bash)<br>
<br>
RSYNC_OPTS='-aWuq --delete-before' # forces me to think about it<br>
TARGET_ROOT='/media/bmike1/Lexar32G'<br>
for SOURCE_DIR in \<br>
 '/home/bmike1/Music' \<br>
 '/home/bmike1/Pictures' \<br>
; do<br>
 TARGET_DIR="${TARGET_ROOT}/$(basename ${SOURCE_DIR})"<br>
 for CMD in \<br>
  'date' \<br>
  "du -s ${SOURCE_DIR}" \<br>
  "find ${SOURCE_DIR} | wcl" \<br>
  "mkdir -p ${TARGET_DIR}" \<br>
  "rsync ${RSYNC_OPTS} ${SOURCE_DIR}/ ${TARGET_DIR}/" \<br>
  "du -s ${TARGET_DIR}" \<br>
  "find ${TARGET_DIR} | wcl" \<br>
  'date' \<br>
 ; do<br>
  echo -e "${CMD}"<br>
#Â Â eval "${CMD}"<br>
 done<br>
 echo # newline<br>
done<br>
<br>
Run that with the `eval` commented out first, just to show you what the commandlines are gonna be: if they look OK, uncomment the `eval` to actually do something.<br>
<br>
HTH, Tom Roche <<a href="mailto:Tom_Roche@pobox.com">Tom_Roche@pobox.com</a>><br>
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