[SOLVED] Rsync half a directory to one folder, other half to another folder, based on name
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Not necessarily a no go, when I started working here in Spain a year ago, they only had 2 RHEL servers and about 60 Windoze. They were afraid of migrating anything, since they didn't have the knowledge. Now, one year later, we have 20 Linux (mostly Debian) and 40 Window§ servers, and still migrating things. Just to indicate that 'not knowing' or 'not using' at present doesn't mean your boss will give you a NO on the request.
You could ask him to allow you to set up a test environment in order to install and use Unison, and then compare it with rsync and communicate your findings with him.
But won't that grab any folder or files within those folders who's name starts with A?
What I need to do is only look at folder names at that path, have it be whether it starts with A or a, and have it sync the entire folder regardless of what the filenames are inside the folder.
that will only give me folders who's names start with a or A. The only folders under my directory are those at the root level, so that might work. But how would i have rsync take those results and move them to say /mnt/usbdrive/FolderA-Z
I can't even figure out how to do a find that will get me all the folders A-Z. I think if I wanted to have it rsync just all the A or a folders, I could do something like the following but I'm really not sure
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