[GRLUG] rsync help

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 04:17:14PM -0500, Topher wrote:
> Ok, I have a new machine, and I started copying the home dir from my
> old one to it.  It ran for about 18 hours, copying TONS and then
> dropped the connection.
> 
> Now I need to continue, but I have no idea really what's been done
> and what hasn't.  I'm thinking rsync is what I want to continue the
> transfer, but I've only used it a couple times.
> 
> What command would I use to move all the files from my local dir to
> the remote machine, using rsync so that it doesn't re-transfer all
> the stuff that's already there?

I use:

rsync -avzgtpl -e ssh --delete /home/dir_to_backup/ /new/dir

Remember, the final slash is important with rsync.

`man rsync' to make sure you have the right switches.
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