Syncing Directories

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Greetings Peter ,

Peter Gordon wrote:
> [ 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. :)

Well i have uncovered that  even the following command will achieve
the desired thing .

rsync /home/root/sources/   /mnt/OldDisk/root/sources/   or if you wish
rsync /path/to/source   /path/to/destination .

It seems that omiting localhost: will have no negative result to the 
command .


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


Thanks pretty much for the example .

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


I already have taken a quick look at the man page .

> Hope that helps.

It certainly does . Thanks


Kostas