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' )? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > thanks, buddy! > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:14 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com < > kitepilot@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@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@192.168.0.3:/home/xbmc/*** >>> backupdirectoryname*; >>> rsync -vva --exclude=/home/bmike1/**Pictures/* --exclude=.*mozilla* >>> --exclude=.*chromium* xbmc@192.168.0.3:/home/xbmc/ >>> *~/backupdirectoryname* >>> * >>> * >>> is this correct? >>> :-)~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 >> > >