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 <
bmike1@gmail.com> 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<and whatever else comes after string>
> ????????????????????????
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> thanks!
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> 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 <brian@snaptek.com
>>>> <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> 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/
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