rsync - Oct 2006 - Rsync basic question

Hello,

I'm new to rsync and have a basic question for rsync: I want to  
synchronize some data between two clients. Therefore I have  
configured a module on a server.  For test purposes I'm trying to  
sent data to the module and get the data back to the same client. The  
problem is the following:

- The directory I want to sync is /Applications/Scripts.
- If I sent it to the module on the server the directory / 
Applications/Scripts is created there.
- If I get the data back from the module the directory /Applications/ 
Scripts/Applications/Scripts is created.
- The commands I'm using is (client to server) rsync --relative -- 
recursive  --archive --compress --stats --perms --times $DIRECTORY  
$MODULE
   and (server to client) rsync --relative --recursive  --archive -- 
compress --stats --perms --times $MODULE  $DIRECTORY
    where $ DIRECTORY is /Applications/Skripte an $MODULE is the  
configured module


Could anyone please tell me what's wrong?

Regards
Michael.

On 10/20/06, Michael Homscheidt <Michael.Homscheidt@web.de>
wrote:
> - If I get the data back from the module the directory /Applications/
> Scripts/Applications/Scripts is created.
> [...] (server to client) rsync --relative --recursive  --archive --
> compress --stats --perms --times $MODULE  $DIRECTORY
>     where $ DIRECTORY is /Applications/Skripte an $MODULE is the
> configured module
Your current client-to-server command sends /Applications/Scripts on
the client to a /Applications/Scripts subdirectory inside the module
because you used --relative, which recreates the path of the source
inside the destination.  Your server-to-client command copies the
entire module to $DIRECTORY; since the module contains a subdirectory
/Applications/Scripts, naturally rsync creates a corresponding
subdirectory inside $DIRECTORY.

If you meant to send /Applications/Scripts to the root of the module,
remove --relative from the client-to-server command.

Otherwise, you want to download the /Applications/Scripts subdirectory
of the module instead of the entire module, which means the source in
the server-to-client command should be $MODULE/Applications/Scripts/
instead of $MODULE .  Furthermore, --relative will recreate the
Applications/Scripts path info from the source inside $DIRECTORY,
which will give you the same problem, so remove --relative from the
server-to-client command.  The resulting command would be:
    rsync --archive --compress --stats $MODULE/Applications/Scripts/ $DIRECTORY
(I left off --recursive, --perms, and --times because they're included
in --archive.)

Matt