On Wednesday 15 December 2004 6:26 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:
Before I retired I was using rsync to backup many gig of data across a wan connection and also used the compression switch. Very good program. Also the trailing "/" is only needed on the source not the destination.
Thanks to all for the pointer to rsync. But --- I tried using it to do what seems like a simple case: backing up from one mounted directory to another (actually, the directories are on different hard drives). But I got the following: pwa@suillus:~> rsync -a --delete-after /home/pwa /home-backup/pwa rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes: phase "unknown": Broken pipe rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(515) rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 69 bytes: phase "unknown": Broken pipe rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(515) pwa@suillus:~> What now, good people? Paul