I read the man page a whole bunch of times and I didn't understand it. What about that deleting stuff? That didn't look good to me. WharfRat wrote:ITEM 1 will transfer the source directory files to the destination directoryġ. In other words, each of the following commands copies the files in the same way, including their setting of the attributes of /dest/foo: You can think of a trailing / on a source as meaning 'copy the contents of this directory' as opposed to 'copy the directory by name', but in both cases the attributes of the containing directory are transferred to the containing directory on the destination. Additionally, compression will be used to reduce the size of data portions of the transfer.Ī trailing slash on the source changes this behavior to avoid creating an additional directory level at the destination. Mode, which ensures that symbolic links, devices, attributes, permissions, ownerships, etc. This would recursively transfer all files from the directory src/bar on the machine foo into the /data/tmp/bar directory on the local machine. ITEM 2 wants to create the directory notes on the destination. ITEM 1 will transfer the source directory files to the destination directory

In ITEM 2, there's a listing of almost everything in notes, but not what happened to them. In ITEM 1, I see that 3 files are noted (the top three) but not what happened to them then some files were installed (including a directory), then the directories in the source were deleted (WON'T want that!!!). I am not sure what the output is telling me. Sent 1,721 bytes received 165 bytes 3,772.00 bytes/sec Code: Select all $ rsync -nauv -delete-after /home/user/Desktop/notes /media/user/DesktopData/Desktop/notes/

Shipit rsync mkdir