traced an issue with mirror mode

we will only mirror, aka delete, when the hierarchy on the target is one that already exists on the source.
this is a consequence of the necessary scooping of the "*" under a hierarchy to be copied to the target,
rather than trying to copy at the same height for the directory trees (which will lead to a basement folder being
created under the remote target basement, i.e. /media/fred/archivedrive/basement/basement, rather than
copying direct contents.  so for now, we are limited by our use of rsync for this, unless there's a mode to
do a direct directory copy rather than its current behavior.

diff --git a/scripts/archival/general_updater.sh b/scripts/archival/general_updater.sh
index 85183becb2233e769c73a6911cee7b8f7c95c2b3..0635a984ff8b4e15717a83d936f7329a2391a76e 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/archival/general_updater.sh
+++ b/scripts/archival/general_updater.sh
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ function synch_directory_to_target()
   fi
 
   echo "synching from $from into $to"
+#echo "cmd is: 'netcp $extra_flag "$from"/* "$to"/'"
   netcp $extra_flag "$from"/* "$to"/
   if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo "The synchronization of $from into $to has failed."