rsync copy syntax error?

[sat]

Please disregard this message.  I was copying older data.

Satadru

On Oct 27, 2004, at 9:35 PM, satadru pramanik wrote:

> 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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