Originally Posted By: hybrid8
Ok, here's the output created by the backup process captured as Mark suggested above (cool):
Code:
/usr/bin/rsync -aAv --links -8 --delete --port=873 [email protected]::pictures/DPhotos/. /backup/Automated Backups/DPhotos

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I'll definitely need help with the conditional logic and breaking apart the args in the shell script.

At this point I know what the args do, but I still don't know why there's a period between the SRC and DEST.

From your later posts, I'm guessing that you might not be hacking this script after all. But to answer your question, that "stray" period is actually the tail end of the first path pictures/DPhotos/. -- it means "current directory". And yes, it's totally redundant there. smile

Cheers