[CentOS] rsync question

On Apr 7, 2008, at 13:07, Ray Leventhal wrote:

> I want to backup the /home tree to that box nightly via rsync  
> (cronjob), so I tried this:
>
> rsync -avrogz /home/ /mnt/backup/

First, drop "rog" from the options, as they are implied with -a.   
Also, since you are not going over a (potentially slow) network, drop  
the "z" as well, leaving you with just "rsync -av".

Alfred