On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 18:01 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 18 March 2006 17:34, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > Really? I had completely misunderstood, then. > > > > > > Any advice/caveats? With a man page running to 34 pages it will take a > > > bit of digesting ;-) > > > > > > Anne > > > > Here's a sample of what I use every day to sync my home directory to > > another machine where ssh runs on port 8090, excluding the Cache of any > > mozilla based browser (--exclude=Cache) , deleting any excluded files > > that by accident may have been sent to the destination and files that > > have been removed (--delete-excluded includes --delete) and copying the > > contents of symlinks, instead of copying the links (--copy-links). > > rsync -avz -e 'ssh -p 8090' /home/pmacedo/ my_other_machine:~/sync/ > > --delete-excluded --exclude=Cache --copy-links > > > > One caveat: you must be running rsync either from the source or the > > destination machine, since rsync wont do remote to remote syncs using ssh. > > That's usually what I use and I've never needed any other options > > besides those to do any type of sync. > > > Hmm - I'm getting something badly wrong here: > > [anne@david ~]$ rsync -auvz /home/anne/ ssh:anne@borg:/home/anne/ > --exclude .* > ~/Desktop/rsynctest.txt > The .* includes all hidden (.xxxx) files, the .. (parent) directory, and the . (current) directory. It may not have been what you wanted. > gives > > rsync: link_stat "/home/anne/ssh:anne@borg:/home/anne/." failed: No such file > or directory (2) > > Then it goes on to try to access the other users' directories: > > rsync: opendir "/home/anne/../gillian" failed: Permission denied (13) > rsync: opendir "/home/anne/../lost+found" failed: Permission denied (13) > rsync: opendir "/home/anne/../david" failed: Permission denied (13) > ERROR: destination must be a directory when copying more than 1 file > rsync error: errors selecting input/output files, dirs (code 3) at main.c(410) > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes received so far) [sender] > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(420) > > (I'm deliberately leaving out the -r, for the moment.) > > Anne > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
