[X4U] Don't understand psync.

Allan Hise allan at hise.org
Sat Apr 30 12:59:31 PDT 2005



On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Robert Nicholson wrote:

> Is there anybody here using psync for backups?
>
> Why when I use
>
> /usr/local/bin/psync \
> -v1 \
> -d \
> /Applications \
> /Library \
> /usr/local \
> /Users/robert \
> /Volumes/Backup > $HOME/backup.log 2>&1
>
> does it not create the directories on the backup?
>
> ie. Applications, Library, /usr/local, /Users/robert does not exist on
> the backup.

Well, I double checked how I run psync.
It is definitely
psync [options] input_dir output_dir

I don't think it will deal with multiple input items, so I am guessing
that it just dumped /Applications into /Library . What does the backup.log
file say?

Allan




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