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

[Robert Edwards]

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
> 

How about:

cd /home
for $dir in `ls -1 */*`
do
	test -d "/back/$dir" || mkdir /back/$dir
	rsync -a /home/${dir} /back/
done

Bob Edwards.