On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a bit of a tricky question about rsync. > > Let's say I want to backup a bunch of configuration files with rsync, in > a script. > > What I don't want to do : a full snapshot of /etc. > What I want to do : backup only those files I need, in an otherwise > empty directory tree. > > In my script, I'd begin with a list of the files I effectively want to > backup. Something like : > > /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf > /etc/httpd/vhosts.d/*.conf > /etc/exports > > Then I'd have some other files in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin, > which I would like to backup too. > > Instead of a puzzling explanation, let me just show you how I would like > my resulting backup to look like, so you get the idea : > > etc/ > `-- httpd > |-- conf > | `-- httpd.conf > `-- vhosts.d > |-- site1.conf > |-- site2.conf > `-- site3.conf > > usr/ > `-- local > |-- bin > | |-- script1.sh > | `-- script2.sh > |-- sbin > |-- sbinscript3.sh > `-- sbinscript4.sh > > Now if I do something like this : > > rsync -av /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf destinationfolder/ > > I get something like : > > destinationfolder/httpd.conf > > QUESTION (at last) : is there a way rsync can somehow add the full file > path, so the end result is more like : > > destinationfolder/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf ? Here's how we do it. cd / rsync -avR etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /destinationfolder Note that the lack of leading slash on the source. -- Jeff