Hi,

I used the following rsync command:
rsync -raEz --progress -e ssh --delete --exclude=.svn /var/www/application host:/var/www/ /var/www/application/html/group1/images/products /var/www/application/html/group1/images/company

This is the summary that was displayed at the end:
sent 249326544 bytes received 542026 bytes 1423752.54 bytes/sec
total size is 339503218 speedup is 1.36
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(892) [sender=2.6.8]

Can anyone explain to me what the result was and where I should look for the files/folders that were sent?

Thanks,
Joe

Wow.

I believe you will find that the contents of these directories:

Have been copied to here:

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Thanks @szboardstretcher,

You are spot on, the first three paths were copied to the final path.

Yes, "Wow". I could have caused some major damage. It will be a long time before I fail to check the man pages. No more flying by the seat of my pants.

Joe

Welcome. What were you trying to do?

I was adding to an existing script and wanted to exclude the last two paths from the syncing process. I saw the exclude option followed by paths and in a rush I guessed that I was looking at a space delimited command:
--exclude=.svn /var/www/application host:/var/www/ /var/www/application/html/group1/images/products /var/www/application/html/group1/images/company

Joe

You'll need an --exclude= for each path. If I wanted to sync /var/ to /backups/ and exclude /var/log and /var/lib I would:

The excludes are relative to the directory you are backing up... if you are backing up /var/ just imagine that an exclude statement invisibly already says --exclude '/var/' so all you have to add is the 'log'

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Good Followup @szboardstretcher,

When I ran the incorrect command and saw way too many files being copied, I took the time to research the use of the rsync. I modified the script in the manner you suggest and it worked correctly, only updating the few files that had been modified on the source server.

I didn't think of it earlier, but it would be helpful if I posted the correct version of the script in case someone comes across this thread when looking for help. Here's the correct version to exclude the two image folders as I had originally intended:
rsync -raEz --progress -e ssh --delete --exclude=.svn --exclude 'html/group1/images/products' --exclude 'html/group1/images/company' /var/www/application host:/var/www/

Thanks Again,
Joe