Re: rsync

> 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)

>>>>>     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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