Use --delete if you want the destination to have any files that have been deleted from the source to also deleted in the destination. 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. Brian Cluff On 09/21/2015 03:42 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > what about the -q option and the --delete option? i noticed that you > didn't use them in your command 'rsync -auW /sort/directory > /dest/directory/'. > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Brian Cluff > wrote: > > If you are backing up locally you will want to do things a little > different size as: > > rsync -auW /sort/directory /dest/directory/ > > You will want to skip the -z option and the corresponding > --compress-level option. Since you are doing copying everything > locally that will only cause the machine to compress and immediately > decompress every file that is copied wasting a ton of CPU/power. > > The other thing you will want to do is use the -W flag, that tells > the machine to copy whole files instead of looking for what has > changed between the documents. That way it can look at the time > and/or size and if it's changed it will just copy the whole file. > Without that flag it would read through both the source and > destination file and then just copy the differences by writing a > whole new file, so with the -W (whole file) flag the machine just > reads/writes the file once and is a lot more efficient/faster. > > This can also be a good flag to set on fast networks since it can be > a lot faster just to re-copy the whole file than it is to have the > hard drive reading the file multiple times. > > The progress flag is very nice, but unless you are planning on > closely monitoring your copy, I would skip it as I've found that it > tends to slow down the transfer... or at least make it feel that > way, like a watched pot never boils :) > > On your slash at end end question. A slash at the end tends to mean > that you want to put the source files/dirs into that directory and a > destination without a slash usually means that you want to rename > your source file/directory to that destination file/dir name. > > Lastly the -h option gives you the sizes in easily readable terms or > in other words, instead of just giving you the size in bytes it will > give you size that look like 100K 2.4M 1.8G > > Brian Cluff > > > On 09/20/2015 05:34 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > > 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: > > rsync -aquz --compress-level=5 /home/bmike1/Documents > /media/bmike1/USB > DISK/ > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss