destination dir doubles in size
Martin Pool
mbp at samba.org
Sun Sep 23 13:50:21 EST 2001
On 22 Sep 2001, Ralph Brown <php4u at pacbell.net> wrote:
> I am using Rsync to mirror my primary drive to a mounted second
> drive. I am using a crontab to control it:
>
> 30 3 * * * /usr/bin/rsync -rpogl /* /mnt/backup2/systemBackup/
>
> The first run seems fine. But the subsequent running seems to double
> the original directory size. I notice this by running df -k. The
> destination size increases two fold, as if each time Rsync runs, it
> repeats itself, rather than skipping over unmodified files. Do i need
> to change a switch? FYI, i am running RH 7.1.
So, /mnt is one of the directories that will be matched by /*. I
think you will find all of /mnt/backup2 has been copied to
/mnt/backup2/systemBackup/mnt/systemBackup/.
You can avoid this with
--exclude /mnt
you probably also want
--exclude /proc
and perhaps some others.
--
Martin
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