anybody here good with rsync???

[boast]

macbook:~ $ rsync -ar -vv -e ssh "/Users/user/Pictures/*" user@10.0.0.3:/home/media/photos
opening connection using ssh -l user 10.0.0.3 rsync --server -vvlogDtpr . /home/media/photos 
Password: 
building file list ... 
link_stat "/Users/user/Pictures/*" failed: No such file or directory
done

any other way to do this??? I can't backup the folder, because folder names are different, so I just want to backup all the content that is in the server.

 

[aross99]

I think the issue is in the way you are passing the list of files to backup. I have a remote volume (called miniStack) that I use to backup my Pictures like this:

rsync -aE --delete ~/Pictures /Volumes/miniStack/backup

Note that the volume has to be mounted, and it has a "Pictures" folder in the "backup" folder on the drive.

I have not tried this with ssh, but I wonder if it would work without the * and different folder names:

rsync -ar -vv -e ssh /Users/user/Pictures user@10.0.0.3:/home/media

I think this would create a "Pictures" folder in your remote /home/media directory...

As I said though - I haven't tried this with SSH...

 

[boast]

I figured out that if I leave the trailing slash, it has the same effect as the asterisk, and copies the files

thanks for your effort, though.