On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 19:02 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/03/2009 06:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:05 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 03:02 -0700, GMS S wrote: > >>> Will this command do the job for backup? > >>> > >>> rsync -vpa / /home/user/backup > >> Er, isn't this recursive? > > > > What I meant to say was "isn't this an infinite loop?" The entire > > filesystem rooted at / is being copied into one of its subtrees. > > > > The answer is that rsync is clever enough to avoid this (I tried it on a > > test directory), > > Try it a second time. > > rsync ain't that smart. The only reason it worked the first time is > that rsync built a list of files/directories to copy before it copied > them. With rsync 3, it only builds that list for one directory at a > time. Older versions built the entire list before beginning. You'll > get different results with the two versions, IIRC. Make sense. Even more reason to avoid the above incantation and use a standard package. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
