And, of course, I knew this already. In my regular backup scripts I do it right: 'rsync -avz ~ srvr:/home' not 'rsync -avz ~/* srvr:/home/bob/' But I wanted to backup all the files that are usually excluded (tmp, cache, music and video) so I thought I'd do it manually. Fortunately, there's an older backup that has everything. I'm only going to restore hidden things like .gnupg an…