it has worked without the trailing slash until now. everything has worked perfectly until today (well over ayear with rsync run at least once a month. On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Sesso wrote: > If you don't use a trailing /, it will copy a whole directory. As Brian > also said. A / at the end of the destination also if you want the files IN > that directory. > > I use rsync -avzpor quite frequently for migrations. Final syncs will get > --delete so it has an exact copy. > > Jason > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 9, 2016, at 6:01 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > > ls -h doesn't show hidden files, it shows the files sizes in "h"uman > readable format. > > Do an ls -a to show "a"ll the files, including the hidden ones. > > Also I think you might need to add a trailing / to your destination > directory to get it to work correctly. > > Brian > > On 05/09/2016 04:49 PM, Michael wrote: > > forgot to mention that when I'm copying from original to destination w/o > rsync i am asked if I want to skip or replace an existing file even though > the file is not visible. I attempted to do an ls -h but the file is not > hidden. > > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Michael wrote: > >> When I run rsync one file (a directory) will not sync and the files in >> that file. I was wondering why. I thought that maybe if the file was in >> there to start that would fix it and it does so if only temporarily. Upon >> the next run of rsync the directory in question is deleted. >> the command that is run: >> $ rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents >> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk >> >> >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FAfv-aLaQR6HWUx8M-aZF4QL8oAsi6SH2Xg01vKpTPI/edit?usp=sharing >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > > > > -- > :-)~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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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~(-: