"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Just to be clear. The comma was a mistype. I was stating that you do not
> want to use a period. If you use a period and you are not in the correct
> directory, rsync will remove everything within your working directory.
Oh, so you're saying the second argument should be an absolute path?
OK, that's a great clue -- right on par with "don't rm -rf ." ...
regards, tom lane