Hey everyone, I'm hoping you can help me out with what is sure to be an easy question, but I'm not an rsync guru.

 

My two servers are called 'DrEvil' and 'MiniMe'.  DrEvil is the primary server, and I'm in the process of backing up my BluRay collection to MiniMe.

I'm using the Unassigned Devices plugin to SMB mount DrEvil to MiniMe, and here is the command I'm running:

 

rsync -a --progress --ignore-existing /mnt/disks/192.168.0.3_MediaCollection/BluRay/ /mnt/user/MediaCollection/BluRay/

 

The command is working fine, with one exception.  All of my movies are in their own folder, in the structure "MovieTitle/MovieTitle.mkv".  Rsync is creating all of the movie folders before it starts creating the first .mkv file.  Since my 'MediaCollection' share is set to split at level 2, creating all the folders in advance is a problem.  All the folders will get created on Disk1 since that's where the free space is initially.  Since all folders are created on Disk1, and my split level setting is at 2, unRaid tries to write ALL movies to Disk1.  The rsync command is simply filling up Disk1 and then I get a "no space left on disk" error.

 

Basically my question is, is there an rsync parameter that will tell it *not* to create the folder structure in advance?

 

Thanks!

Not an expert, but I'd check the rsync man page.

 

I don't know if it'll do what you want, but I'd read carefully the sections on -R (--relative) and --no-implied-dirs to see if they can get you where you need to go.

 

Clearly this can be done because mover manages to not mess up split levels... (So you might want to look at Mover and see what flags it's passing to rsync)