Syncing Directories

[Peter Gordon]

[ CC: fedora-list, in case others are having similar troubles.]

Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> > Assume that we have two directories on the very same host .
> one is
>  /home/root/sources/ and the other one
> /mnt/OldDisk/root/sources
> 
> and we want to sync those two .
> 
> Are you suggesting that
> 
> rsync /home/root/sources   localhost:/mnt/OldDisk/root/sources/
> 
> will do what we want ?

Pretty much. :)

I use the following:
$ rsync --archive --delete --sparse --stats /path/to/source /path/to/destination

Take a look at the rsync(1) man page for more information about its options and 
parameters:
$ man 1 rsync

Hope that helps.
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Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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