rsync copy syntax error?
satadru pramanik
satadru at umich.edu
Thu Oct 28 01:35:59 GMT 2004
I'm doing a recurring copy from one server to another from the crontab
in this fashion:
rsync -av -e ssh --delete 10.0.1.18:/dir1/ /dir1 --progress &>
/var/log/rsync_backup.log
However, rsync is creating the dir /dir1/dir1 on the machine running
this job instead of updating the /dir1 folder.
According to the rsync man page, this is the correct syntax:
rsync -avz foo:src/bar/ /data/tmp
A trailing slash on the source changes this behavior to avoid creating
an additional directory level at the destination. You can think of a
trailing / on a source as meaning “copy the contents of this directory”
as opposed to “copy the directory by name”, but in both cases the
attributes of the containing directory are transferred to the
containing directory on the destination. In other words, each of the
following commands copies the files in the same way, including their
setting of the attributes of /dest/foo:
rsync -av /src/foo /dest
rsync -av /src/foo/ /dest/foo
Am I doing something wrong? I am using rsync version 2.6.3 protocol
version 28 on a Debian/Sarge system.
Regards,
Satadru
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