by compress I thought they meant zip. so there is no way to zip it? On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > The --compress-level=5 option is for compressing the data over a network. > I would hope that rsync is smart enough to not actually compress the data > internally when the data is staying local to the machine, but if it's not, > telling it to compress will just eat up a bunch of your CPU to accomplish > nothing. > > rsync does indeed have an exclude option that looks like: > > --exclude 'string*' > > If you want the data compressed but still want to use rsync on it, you > will probably need to look into using a filesystem that will automatically > compress your data. Then you can just use the same command to backup your > data and the compression will be done transparently. > > Try looking into formatting your drive with something like the BTRFS > filesystem that supports transparent compression. > > Brian Cluff > > On 09/23/2015 06:49 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> It seems that the compress doesn't work. >> >> size of Documents folder: >> bmike1@c521 ~ $ du -hs Documents/ >> which lists the size of 19G >> >> bmike1@c521 /media/bmike1/USB DISK $ du -hs ./ >> 20G./ >> >> --compress-level=5 made it bigger! >> >> Or else do I also need to include '-z' as well? >> >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Michael Havens > > wrote: >> >> got it to backup. But still, please answer my question about the >> 'exclude' option and how much I can compress it. I got it to backup >> by erasing the .Trash folder. Why don't pendrives make the space >> available after you delete a file? >> >> rsync -auWq --progress --delete --compress-level=5 >> /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/"USB DISK"/ >> rsync: rename "/media/bmike1/USB DISK/Documents/.forwardspamto >> .elhlC4" -> "Documents/forwardspamto ": Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp "/media/bmike1/USB >> >> DISK/Documents/Business/Receipts/lazycash/.index.html?a_aid=509c458b25b79.sGaqe4" >> failed: Invalid argument (22) >> >> rsync: mkstemp "/media/bmike1/USB >> DISK/Documents/ComputerInstructions/.ForgotPassword?.xVeqCC" failed: >> Invalid argument (22) >> rsync: mkstemp "/media/bmike1/USB >> DISK/Documents/Education/.Screenshot-LFS101x.2 Progress | edX - >> Google Chrome.png.eyN1PK" failed: Invalid argument (22) >> rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous >> errors) (code 23) at main.c(1183) [sender=3.1.0] >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Michael Havens > > wrote: >> >> 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> after 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. 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