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# 1  
Old 05-25-2011
rsync not recursing properly
i have a script like this:
Code:
cat moveusers | while read USER
do
  rsync -av /home/s12/$USER /home/$USER
done

but it's skipping all of the files in /$USER/mail

why is rsync not acting "recursively" here?
Code:
sent 4658 bytes  received 20 bytes  9356.00 bytes/sec
total size is 16785237  speedup is 3588.12
building file list ... done

sent 5551 bytes  received 20 bytes  11142.00 bytes/sec
total size is 1621517  speedup is 291.06
building file list ... done

sent 4296 bytes  received 20 bytes  8632.00 bytes/sec
total size is 3441895  speedup is 797.47
building file list ... done


However when I put
Code:
do
  rsync -av /home/s12/$USER/mail /home/$USER/mail
done

then there are a lot of emails still to be synched

example:
Code:
mail/domain.com/content/new/1291683788.H636406P31670.host.hostname.com,S=29322
mail/domain.com/content/new/1291942356.H459461P9710.host.hostname.com,S=21473
mail/domain.com/content/new/1292295057.H513844P10850.host.hostname.com,S=22656
mail/domain.com/content/new/1292402868.H347884P17595.host.hostname.com,S=23970
mail/domain.com/content/new/1292578844.H409196P26144.host.hostname.com,S=23413
mail/domain.com/content/new/1292884754.H106715P31585.host.hostname.com,S=24543

how come when i rsync in /home/user it doesn't work, isn't rsync recursive and it should sync /home/use/mail too?
Last edited by Franklin52; 05-25-2011 at 07:02 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 2  
Old 05-25-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by vanessafan99
sent 4658 bytes received 20 bytes 9356.00 bytes/sec
total size is 16785237 speedup is 3588.12
building file list ... done

sent 5551 bytes received 20 bytes 11142.00 bytes/sec
total size is 1621517 speedup is 291.06
building file list ... done

sent 4296 bytes received 20 bytes 8632.00 bytes/sec
total size is 3441895 speedup is 797.47
building file list ... done
if this output is full then all files appears like already synchronized.

and

Quote:
cat moveusers | while read USER
do
rsync -av /home/s12/$USER /home/$USER
done
result --> /home/$USER/$USER/mail/domain.com/......


Quote:
do
rsync -av /home/s12/$USER/mail /home/$USER/mail
done
result --> home/$USER/mail/mail/domain.com/......

maybe you must check your folders.

regards
ygemici
# 3  
Old 05-25-2011
You must append / to a directory if you wanna copy it with rsync.
The right way :
Code:
rsync -av /home/s12/$USER/ /home/$USER

# 4  
Old 05-26-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by ygemici
if this output is full then all files appears like already synchronized.

and
that's the thing it hasn't been synchronized

when i synchornize /home/user it is showing everything is already synchronized but it's not because when i do /home/user/mail then it synchronizes more files even though /home/user/mail is under /home/user

---------- Post updated at 04:13 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:11 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by Chirel
You must append / to a directory if you wanna copy it with rsync.
The right way :
Code:
rsync -av /home/s12/$USER/ /home/$USER

Ohhh really??? I think this is why then!
Thanks for this

Crap that means a lot of previous syncs have been wrong


How come it works sometimes though?

---------- Post updated at 04:18 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:13 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by Chirel
You must append / to a directory if you wanna copy it with rsync.
The right way :
Code:
rsync -av /home/s12/$USER/ /home/$USER

I didn't know this before Smilie

It used to work without the /, and it works sometimes
How come it doesn't always work?
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