rsync is bad

[Nils Kassube]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 08:35 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > Karl posted his script here:
> > <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2008-June/148741.html
> >>
>
> I am everything but an rsync expert, 

Me too ...

> but the missing -r option is quite 
> obvious. Isn't it needed to actually recurse into the top-level
> directories Karl has specified?

From the rsync manpage:

-a, --archive     archive mode; same as -rlptgoD (no -H, -A)

So with "-av" he did use it recursively. Something else must be wrong.


Nils