Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3337 mails)

["Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)" <hylton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Cunning wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 March 2006 13:34, Ken Schneider wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > I would use rsync -varpltz --stats /home/hylton/ /media/backup/home
> >
> > Make sure you include a closing / on the source so that you get a
> > recursive copy.
>
> That's not what the closing / does.  According to the man page, a trailing / 
> on the source changes the behavior so that "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' "  Recursive copying is controlled by -r.
>
> In your example, the contents of /home/hylton would be copied 
> to /media/backup/home. There would be no /media/backup/home/hylton directory 
> created--probably not what the OP expects.
Wow Jim tnx. How'd you know the OP didn't want it  as you were right on 
the money :)

So by leaving the src / off I get the /home/hylton directories in 
/media/backup?
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