[clue-tech] Help using 'rsync'?

[Adrian F. Nagle, IV]

Doh!  Thanks Adam and Dave.

Now the command in parenthesis does not work.  Shouldn't that be basic to bash?  For now I just manually added the date.

Adrian
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----- Original Message ----
> From: "adamb at glaven.org" <adamb at glaven.org>
> To: CLUE technical discussion <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>; "Adrian F. Nagle, IV" <anagle at naglenet.org>
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> Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 6:57:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Help using 'rsync'?
> 
> Unbalanced parentheses?
> 
> $(date+%Y%m%d_rsync.log
> 
> 
> Quoting "Adrian F. Nagle, IV" :
> 
> > 
> > Folks,
> > 
> > I found this command for backups.  It appears to do what I want,  that is copy 
> the contents of one USB drive to another USB drive:
> > sudo rsync -av --progress --delete  
> --log-file=/home/addy/Desktop/$(date+%Y%m%d_rsync.log  /media/nagle_ext1 
> /media/nagle_ext1_bk
> > 
> > Both the directories are mounted.  When I run the command, I get a  new lines 
> with ">", a sub shell?  It does not appear to do anything  and just hangs at the 
> new prompt.  I'm not sure what to expect with  the --progress option.
> > 
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