Re: rsync usage

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 08:15:50PM -0600, Charles Menzes wrote:
> that being said, in theory, the following will allow a local directory to 
> be kept up to date mirroring any new files, and removing any deleted 
> files. and no transfer will occur if no files have changed since the last 
> run...
> 
>   rsync -a --delete

Just for reference, what you really want is something more like this:

    rsync -aHP --delete user@host:/remote/dir/. local/dir/.

Add -v also if you are running this interactively.  Be sure to "export
RSYNC_RSH=ssh" before running it or add "-e ssh" to the command line
if you want to use ssh for the transfer.

The "/." appended to the directories eliminates any confusion rsync
might have with the command.  Without it, you might end up with
/local/dir/dir/ or something.

Steve
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