thanks! On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > 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 > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: