On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 18:04 +0200, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote:
I am looking into using rsync to make a copy of my existing home directory(1.6Gb) and storing an exact copy on another local drive.
I have had a look at the man pages for rsync and notice that there are tons of options. I have noted the options I would like below and ask for some assistance in compiling the correct syntax of the coammand. I will be running the cmd as root from a root terminal(Alt-F2) and the user in question will not be logged on at the same time.
The switches I have identified are: -v - Verbose @ I'd like to know what is happening -c - always checksum # This makes sure the file on SRC is the same as DEST -r - recurse into directories # All the files in the subdirectories -l - copy symlinks as symlinks # Should there be any if I haven't created any, to my knowledge -A - preserve ACLs (implies -p) [local option] #preserve permissions -o - preserve owner -g - preserve group -t - preserve times #preserve the time the file was last edited --stats - give some file transfer stats #Stats on what happened -a - archive mode, equivalent to -rlptgoD
The command so far: #rsync -vcrlAogt -stats /home/hylton /media/backup/
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. I also doubt your home directory has any special ACL's that need backup. This could also be used by the owner of the files which in this case would be hylton. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998