Adding rsync to pCP

You have syntax slightly the wrong way round. It should be

rsync -ravz --partial /mnt/WDElements/Users/Edward/ /mnt/backup/Users/Edward

The trailing / on the source parameter means copy the contents of the
directory, rather the the actual directory.

Mike.

On 20/12/2021 16:39, Chunkywizard wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> thanks for the reply, I'd never spotted that page and it worked well
> rync is now installed. Now I just need to work out my syntax!
>
> tc@piCoreOffice:/mnt$ rsync -ravz --partial /mnt/WDElements/Users/Edward
> /mnt/backup/Users/Edward/
> sending incremental file list
> rsync: mkdir "/mnt/backup/Users/Edward" failed: No such file or
> directory (2)
> rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(657) [Receiver=3.1.2]
>
> seems it is failing due to due having the folder on the backup harddrive
> (which is blank) but I thought rsync copied the directory and the files
> (I'm using
> https://www.howtogeek.com/427480/how...-linux-system/ as a
> source)
>
> Paul
>
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