How to rsync to different directory?

I used rsync to copy a large number of files, but my OS (Ubuntu) restarted unexpectedly.

After reboot, I ran rsync again, but from the output on the terminal, I found that rsync still copied those already copied before. But I heard that rsync is able to find differences between source and destination, and therefore to just copy the differences.

Is it possible to compare two directories with rsync and only print the differences? There's a dry-run option, but when I increase verbosity to a certain level, every file compared is shown.

ls -alR and diff is no option here, since there are hardlinks in the source making every line different. (Of course, I could delete this column with perl.)

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?

Iam using rsync tool to sync files from one linux server to other linux server, however it takes huge time to finish it.

Hi all,

I'm new to the rsync world in hpux. Currently I have rsync going through the main public lan, but dude to traffic loads, I have been told that i need to use a dedicated rsync lan.

I currently have 4 spare nics and the plan was to use one of these for the rsync, but I can't figure out how to get the rsync process to use the spare nic.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I want to use rsync to move my 512GB Mac OS X TimeMachine backup from one USB disk to another.

I'm trying running rsync -aPEv source destination to do so.

Running in cygwin

rsync -vrtz --password-file=c:\cygwin\secret --delete /cygdrive/d/Data user@xx.xx.xx.xx::modulename

But getting

rsync: could not open password file c:cygwinsecret: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at /home/lapo/package/rsync-3.0.9-1/src/rsync-3.0.9/authenticate.c(166) [sender=3.0.9]

I have tried 'chmod 600 secret' and changing the ow

I must admit,I thought this was going to be way easier:after backing up my system with a tar of my / directory with all the exclusions suggested here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/TAR I was suggested that rsync also may be worth trying,so I had a go at backing up again with rsync trying to append the same exclusions as with tar,namely

Code: /proc /sys /lost+found /mnt

I am working on an rsync script for directory replication. I have it syncing only new and modified files or directories but am not liking the fact that its copying renamed files or directories as a new file or directory, keeping the files not in sync. I have also set a bandwidth limit of 1mb (for this will run during business work hours).