Hi,

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 22:41, Scott Ehrlich srehrlich@gmail.com wrote:

Many people have wondered what my rsync syntax was -

[as root]: rsync -av /path/to/source me@remote-host:/path/to/dest

Is /path/to/source mounted NFS?

What happens if you run it as your own user?

I'll be adjusting it to adapt to perform incrementals, probably with --update.

You probably don't need that, as rsync will detect if files are identical. If you use --update it means that if the file is updated on the destination it won't be replaced with the one in the source, which is probably not what you want if the destination is to be used as a backup.

So, just need to learn why some of the .dotfiles, and other unknown files (unless I ran a diff) didn't successfully copy over.

Can you show what "ls -la /path/to/source" shows (considering the .dotfiles are directly under that directory)?

Do you have any error messages when you run the rsync command?

HTH, Filipe