rsync followup - what did I run?

Richard Chonak rac-7q86n6wRh+gPnHn3N7+5xA at public.gmane.org
Sun Sep 27 22:51:52 EDT 2009


I find it more reliable if I add --checksum .

Was "source" a directory name?   If it was "*", as Jerry wondered, that 
would exclude dotfiles.

--RC


Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> Many people have wondered what my rsync syntax was -
> 
> [as root]: rsync -av /path/to/source me at remote-host:/path/to/dest
> 
> 
> I'll be adjusting it to adapt to perform incrementals, probably with --update.
> 
> So, just need to learn why some of the .dotfiles, and other unknown
> files (unless I ran a diff) didn't successfully copy over.
> 
> Thanks.
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