By Swen Winkler
How do I point to the right directory in the command line without getting syntax errors? Eg. The target directory is “Movies”, that is a subdirectory to “Shared Videos”, that is a subdirectory to “Public”. The same question applies to the directory on the source NAS.
The command I want to use is this: rsync -azP [SOURCE DIRECTORY] admin@[IP ADDRESS OF YOUR NEW NAS]:[SOURCE DIRECTORY]
Thanks.
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Are you forgetting to escape the white space in “Shared Videos” and remembering that file and folder names are case senstive?
Example:
rsync -azp /home/user/public/Shared\ Videos/Movies/ admin@[IP ADDRESS OF YOUR NEW NAS]:[DESTINATION DIRECTORY]
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