Scott - Whoops! In the past, I was RSYNCing to a backup/standby server and forgot to modify the command. Thank you..... Todd Scott Silva wrote: > Todd Cary spake the following on 5/24/2007 4:11 PM: > >> Jim - >> >> Thank you! That is exactly what I needed. I had to make one change >> though since I use rsync to copy the data to the USB drive: I could not >> use vfat. Instead, I used ext3. With vfat, I got errors when it tried >> to do a chmod (expected). >> >> I do have another fs question though. A couple of weeks ago I noticed >> that the USB icon was not on my desktop when I turned the drive on. Not >> knowing any better, I ran my rsync with the following: >> >> /usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ /media/usbdisk/ >> >> And it went ahead and did it's thing *but* the drive was >> inoperable...dead. Where did the data go? >> >> And I noticed with the new drive, if I turn it off, rsync puts the data >> somewhere with >> >> /usr/bin/rsync -av --exclude=".*" -e ssh /home/ /media/usbdisk1/ >> >> I need a FS 101 course!! >> > You don't need the -e ssh command if you are copying locally. Just use > /usr/bin/rsync -av /home/ /media/usbdisk1/ --exclude=".*" > > As for your copy with an unmounted drive, the copy should have gone to > /media/usbdisk . Try a ls /media/usbdisk > -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070524/46cbe03e/attachment-0005.html>