On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Peter Loo wrote:
> Does anyone know if "rsync" can recursively create a directory if the
> directory at the destination does not exist?
Certainly -- this is its default behaviour with the -a option.
Indeed, one can 'clone' whole Linux systems thus:
1. fdisk and mkfs on a destination disk -- set multiple
partitions up, as needed.
2. mount at, say, /mnt/build
3. cd / ; rsync -av --exclude /mnt/build --exclude /proc \
/. /mnt/build/.
(long wait while the disk is copied, head to toe.)
4. Fix /mnt/mount/etc/fstab, and /mnt/build/etc/lilo.conf to
properly reflect the new partitions; Move drive to a new
host, and jumper properly. Boot from a recovery
floppy, run ldconfig, and lilo, and you're done
... It made directories, preserved device specials --
everything. From root on down. Do it all the time.
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