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	fattomm	2009-03-21 , 03:58
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Originally Posted by FRZ

Will do, thanks.

You know, I just looked at the man page again, and there is a ridiculous number of knobs (does the world really need a rsync daemon mode?).

For example; to keep an up-to-date backup of my music, I do a

Code:

rsync --delete -val remotehost:/media/music .

where

Code:

  --delete   # delete local versions of files that have been removed remotely
 -v             # verbose - I like chatty, you mayn't
 -a             # "archive" - preserve owner/group/timestamps
 -l              # if the remote is a soft-link, make the soft-link locally

The "-l" is supposed to be included in the "-a" - but it seems to be broken on Fedora 9.

The syntax is a lot like cp(1) or scp(1) - and rsync is fairly simple if apprached from that standpoint. (I put all the above into a shell script, and run it whenever I made changes to my music collection).

You might want to look at the "--exclude=" flag, to skip sub-directories and whatnot that you may not want to include in the copy ....

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