On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> The example listed works, but only when it's a local rsync:
>
> rsync --archive --hard-links --size-only old_dir new_dir remote_dir
>
> Perhaps a better example (or additional one) would be with a remote
> rsync, including clarification of old and new dir, like so:
>
> (run in /var/lib/postgresql)
> rsync --archive --hard-links --size-only \
> 9.3/main \
> 9.4/main \
> server:/var/lib/postgresql/
>
> Note that 9.3/main and 9.4/main are two source directories for rsync to
> copy over, while server:/var/lib/postgresql/ is a remote destination
> directory. The above directories match a default Debian/Ubuntu install.
My point is that Bruce's patch suggests looking for "remote_dir" in
the rsync documentation, but no such term appears there.
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