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~(-: