why does this rsync commands copy again the same files?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 22.11.2012 22:44, schrieb 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/

http://defindit.com/readme_files/rsync_backup.html

if you are using /source/ /target/ you do not need
to care about any destination folder - /target/
will be a 100% identical copy of the source

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