why does this rsync commands copy again the same files?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 22.11.2012 22:34, schrieb M. Fioretti:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 22:10:04 PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
>>>>> rsync -rvt --delete --no-o --no-g /home/z/photo/ /media/Verbatim/photo
>>>>
>>>> this command has a error
>>>> the last aparm is missing a trailing slash
>>>
>>> Why would that be an error?
>>
>> because i had enough cases with rsync over different partitions
>> where the missing trailing slash resulted in copy the whole data to
>> the source partition and fill it up
> 
> omitting the trailing slash is the way explained by many tutorials and
> by the rsync documentation itself if what one wants to do is, as in my
> case, to copy the whole content of /home/z/photo/ inside
> /media/Verbatim/photo
> 
> IIRC, adding a trailing slash /media/Verbatim/photo/ would cause
> another "photo" folder to appear inside /media/Verbatim/photo/, which
> is not what I want

i am using rsync since many years in any environment
for backups, for sync folders, for sync TB's of data all over the world

adding a trailing slash /media/Verbatim/photo/ would cause
NEVER EVER another "photo" folder to appear inside /media/Verbatim/photo/


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