On 30/07/07, Tom Diehl <tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, John Pierce wrote: > > >> That was a scary lesson that I learned tonight. I'm burning a backup > >> now, and I'll be learning rsync tonight... > >> > > This is an rsync command that my wife and I both use on our laptops > > everytime we get home to our local network. > > > > /usr/bin/rsync -e ssh -avzp --exclude "/home/eagle1/.ssh" --delete > > /home/eagle1 / /ns2.local.net:/prtdata/ > > I would suggest using the -n option to rsync to test things before you > run it on a live filesystem. Leaving a / off of the end of a path in rsync > can be disasterous. It has saved my life many times. > I'll keep that in mind. Thanks. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/
