On Tuesday, 26 March 2024 00:37:31 GMT Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Monday, 25 March 2024 02:58:21 GMT Dale wrote:
> >> I did this with the following command earlier. > >> > >> rsync -av --progress --delete /var/cache/portage/tree/* > >> /backup/gentoo-build/var/cache/portage/tree/ > > > > Your syntax for the source tree will fail to copy a couple files > > immediately under /var/cache/portage/tree/ which start with "." > > > > It would be better if you used: > > > > /var/cache/portage/tree /backup/gentoo-build/var/cache/portage/tree > > I edited that in my little script. The locations with rsync can be > tricky. Each way that one can use gives a slightly different execution. Oops! Scratch that - I was wrong. Sorry! This is what will work: /foo/ /backup/foo will copy the contents of source /foo into destination /backup/foo, without copying the top level directory /foo itself. This way both /foo at source and /backup/foo at destination will have identical content. If you omit a trailing slash you'll copy the source top level directory itself and will get: /backup/foo/foo/... which NOT what you're after. Hope this helps.
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