[clug] rsync -r --max-depth=2

[Kim Holburn]

What's wrong with
rsync -a  server::home/   /back/
?

On 2007/Aug/31, at 8:00 AM, Michael James wrote:

> I need to pull a mirror of the home dirs on an rsync server.
> Because it's a huge job I normally run a script
>  that does an rsync for each user.
>
> When it happens locally the script starts like this:
> cd /home
> for $dir in `ls -1 */*`
> do
> 	test -d "/back/$dir" || mkdir /back/$dir
> 	rsync  -a   /home/${dir}/   /back/${dir}/
> done
>
> From a remote rsync server I can't do shell globbing.
> So if a new user is added , the mirror will never get to know about  
> it.
>
> Is there any option on rsync that will accomplish this:
>
> rsync -ra --maxdepth=2 server::home/ /mirror/
> cd /mirror
> for $dir in `ls -1 */*`
> do
> 	rsync -a  server::home/${dir}/   /back/${dir}/
> done
>
> <Wonders>  Can  "-d"  be encoraged to pull an unnamed dir?
>
> TIA,
> michaelj
>
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