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Hello Dale,
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if I understand you correctly, you had renamed the source directory
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"/home/dale/Desktop/Crypt/Video/" to
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"/home/dale/Desktop/Crypt/Video-1/" and
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want to have it removed in the target directory, which is still
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"/mnt/10tb/Video/"?
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Important!: Please read everything first, then do an isolated test in
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"/tmp/", since the commands are dangerous!:
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You can instruct "rsync" to copy the entire parent directory:
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$ rsync --delete "[...]/Crypt/" "/mnt/10tb"
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Note the trailing slash behind "Crypt", which is an indicator[1] to
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tell "rsync", that it is a directory and that all files and
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subdirectories should be copied to the target directory "/mnt/10tb".
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If something is missing in the source directory "[...]/Crypt/", it
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will be also deleted in "/mnt/10tb"!
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Side notes, which may be useful:
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1. "rsync" is also capable of creating the (missing) target directory:
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$ rsync --delete "[...]/Crypt/Video-1/" "/mnt/10tb/something"
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"rsync" creates the target directory "/mnt/10tb/something" first and
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then copies all files and subdirectories from the source directory
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"[...]/Crypt/Video-1/" to it. But "/mnt/10tb/Video/" would still be
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orphaned.
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2. There is a parameter, called "--mkpath"[2], which creates all
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missing subdirectories of the target directory first.
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-Ramon
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[1] See "man 1 rsync" "USAGE":
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"A trailing slash on the source changes this behavior to avoid creating
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an additional directory level at the destination. You can think of a
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trailing / on a source as meaning "copy the contents of this directory"[...]
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[2] See "man 1 rsync".
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On 02/09/2022 10:35, Dale wrote:
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> time rsync -auv --progress --delete/home/dale/Desktop/Crypt/Video/* |
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> /mnt/10tb/Video/ |
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> I've tried removing the -u, adding --force but no change. Basically, if |
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> I remove a directory on the source, how do I get it to remove the same |
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> on the backup/target? I went through the options on the man page and |
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> nothing hit me as a fix. What am I missing? |
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