Re: rsync

>>     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~(-:

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