From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 17 15: 7:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48B3A37B403 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 15:07:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.3) id g4HM7Lxw088329; Fri, 17 May 2002 17:07:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 17:07:21 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Jason L. Schwab" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Local UFS Syncing Message-ID: <20020517220721.GQ93330@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020517022114.O1697-100000@citadel.simphost.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020517022114.O1697-100000@citadel.simphost.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (May 17), Jason L. Schwab said: > Heya Folks; > > What you all recommend for synchronizing one directory on a > FreeBSD UFS system to another directory? What I am doing is, > syncing all my customers files, webpages, configs and else to > another harddrive and then to tape. > > I need a local sync program like rsync but local support. I > used to use rsync to another machine, then I decided to keep it > local when I found other uses for that remote machine. rsync works fine when given two local dirs. From the manpage: GENERAL There are six different ways of using rsync. They are: o for copying local files. This is invoked when neither source nor destination path contains a : separator -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message