[K12OSN] Silly rsync question

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Tue May 23 17:52:36 UTC 2006


Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> I can't seem to find my notes for syntax to rsync my /home to another drive. 
> We purchased a new PowerVault 220S and are moving from a SATA RAID over to
> this to fix speed issues.  I want to rsync /home to /powervault, then unmount
> /home and /powervault and remount /powervault as /home, make sense?  Anyhow I
> issued "rsync -av /home /powervault" and it is creating
> /powervault/home/allmydata, and I want /powervault/allmydata.  What switch or
> trailing slashes am I missing?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jim
> 

You need a trailing slash after /home

	rsync -av /home/ /powervault


-Eric




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