Help with rsync using link-dest

In order to create regular backups, I'm using rsync together with --link-dest so as to create hard-links for unchanged files.

Good day

I use this script to backup my home PC to remote PC

#!/bin/bash #Todays date in ISO-8601 format: DAY0=`date -I`

#Yesterdays date in ISO-8601 format: DAY1=`date -I -d "1 day ago"`

#The source directory: SRC="/home/honza/Downloads/"

#The target directory: TRG="honza@192.168.80.197:/media/zaloha/$DAY0"

#The link destination directory: LNK="/media/zaloha/$DAY1"

#The rsync options: OPT=

I have a big hierarchy of files. Sometimes hardlinks are created within that hierarchy and I know exactly in what folders that happened.

I have a problem rsyncing my folders. In my home there is folder workspace. Recently I changed its content a lot, creating new directories, deleting old ones. New folders were successfully rsynced to external disk but deleted folders are still on external disk, not deleted. Same if I rsync to my other backup network location.

I have a problem rsyncing my folders. In my home there is folder workspace. Recently I changed its content a lot, creating new directories, deleting old ones. New folders were successfully rsynced to external disk but deleted folders are still on external disk, not deleted. Same if I rsync to my other backup network location.

This is happening to me:

$ rsync -av ./foo ./bar $DEST sending incremental file list directory has vanished: "/path/to/foo"

foo exists and is regular a regular dir, and rsync -av ./foo $DEST works, same for bar.

Is "directory has vanished" just how rsync tells me that it doesn't know how to work with multiple sources? Or am I importantly misinterpretting the (long) man page?

I am trying to copy the files from my WHS disk to my Ubuntu Server disk. I have the windows disk mounted at /media/WINDOWS and I want to transfer to /storage so I ran;

Code: sudo cp -r /media/WINDOWS /storage It takes about 4-5 seconds and is complete, but there is about 500 GB worth of data there so I know it didn't really copy everything over.

I run the following rsync command to back up my data.

I have multiple source dirs, say /home/me/source1 and /mnt/somedisk/source2. I want to push them both to something like /home/someoneelse/dest1 and /home/someoneelse/dest respectively. I'd like to use one rsync command to this, is this possible?

What about for N directories to N directories where every directory is uniqe?