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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