I keep running out of space on the flash drive. How tightly can I compress it? Could I get it to not copy files like so: --exclude=string* so that it would exclude all files string ???????????????????????? On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > 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~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: