rsync script error

[John Abreau]

It looks like you're doing

    rsync OPTIONS source-dir OPTIONS dest-dir

Try doing

    rsync OPTIONS OPTIONS source-dir dest-dir



On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Stephen Goldman <sgoldman-3s7WtUTddSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Good afternoon Blu,
>    I 've been doing a hit and miss with a rsync script I wrote that is not working.
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>    Appreciate a review from more experience eyes and suggested reference -
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>    RHEL system-Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)
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>    I have an NFS mount from a NET APP filer that is running ".snapshots" of the directory mounted on
> /mnt/external -- wish to sync to /data/biomicro/external AND skip .snapshots - on mnt/external-
> send email message - script to be run from cron.daily
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>   Combining the --delete and exclude statements is confusing.
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> #!/bin/bash
> /usr/bin/rsync -avz --delete / --exclude ".snapshot"  /mnt/external/. /data/biomicro/external  >> /var/log/rsync/backup.log mail -s "back cron job external ran" sgoldman-3s7WtUTddSA at public.gmane.org
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> When I test from /root   - I error out.
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> rsync: -s: unknown option
> rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1231) [client=2.6.8]
> [root@ ~]#
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> Thanks for your input,
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> Stephen
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> everyday is a learning experience
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> http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/
> Using Rsync Itself
>  Now on to actually using, or initiating an rsync transfer with rsync itself. It's the same binary as the daemon, just without the "--daemon" flag. It's simplicity is a virtue. I'll start with a commandline that I use in a script to synchronize a Web tree below.
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> rsync --verbose  --progress --stats --compress --rsh=/usr/local/bin/ssh \
>      --recursive --times --perms --links --delete \
>      --exclude "*bak" --exclude "*~" \
>      /www/* webserver:simple_path_name
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> Stephen Goldman
> Systems Administrator
> Department of Biology
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> 31 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
> sgoldman-3s7WtUTddSA at public.gmane.org, (617) 452-2595
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