[wplug] rsync question

Eric Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Sun May 5 10:47:28 EDT 2013


Whenever I use rsync by hand from the command line, as opposed to in a
script that's already been debugged, I haved learned from sad
experience to always run it first with the "-n" option.  That shows
what files would be transferred and deleted without actually doing it.
If that looks OK, I just remove the -n and re-execute it.  This has
saved my bacon a number of times.  It's also a good way to fine-tune
the use of the --exclude option.

Sorry if this was covered in an earlier message; I was just skimming
this thread and might have missed it.

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u


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