Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum for directories?

[Christopher Copeland <chrcop@gmail.com>]

On 26 Feb 2008, at 19:51, Stroller wrote:

> Thanks. I think this has been suggested before for my backups - IIRC  
> it  has a useful --ignore-path or --exclude-path command which can  
> insure you all the users' Documents & Settings, without the useless  
> temp & "Temporary Internet Files".
>

rsync has excellent control over what is copied via the include and  
exclude options.

> I've just tried `rsync- vrchi` on a pair of subdirectories ("My  
> Documents") of the backup I made last week and on those it seems run  
> in acceptable time. I got little output, however, so have deleted a  
> couple of files from the destination (I should perhaps write some  
> random data to another) and am running it again in anticipation of  
> some "copying /a/b/c/file /x/y/z/file" output.
>

When I run rsync interactively i usually add --stats and --progress to  
the command. Those will give you more feedback.

> I appreciate your help,

Least I could do, and if I hadn't mentioned it I am sure someone else  
would have. This is a gentoo list ;-)
--
Christopher
-- 
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list