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Old 04-07-2011
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Originally Posted by Chubler_XL
The difference between -del and -delete is just when the delete is done, helps with files that are linked to, it really comes into play on busy destination systems where directories are being monitored and the like.

Do you have links pointing outside the Videos tree?
You might be best in using --copy-unsafe-links anyway just incase a link outside the tree is created in the future.

--ignore-existing does what the description says - if file exists on the dest it's ignored (It will not change the dest file even if the timestamp/size/content/permissions are different)
thanks! ok, im copying mail folders from thunderbird so inbox files will be changing, rsync will simply overwrite the file? i noticed on several trial runs on the Videos dir that it copied each file on the first go around, but when i ran rsync again on the same files it just skipped them

i dont want that to happen. if a file has changed i need to copy it to the dest share and if it has not, then ignore it. kind of like an incremental backup

as for the symlinks, i got it backwards, the links are in directories that will not be copied. the hard files will
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Old 04-07-2011
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Originally Posted by dodgefan67
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I dont want that to happen. if a file has changed i need to copy it to the dest share and if it has not, then ignore it. kind of like an incremental backup
Simple, just don't use the --ignore-existing flag and rsync will compare the two files and only copy when they are different.

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as for the symlinks, i got it backwards, the links are in directories that will not be copied. the hard files will
Stick with --copy-unsafe-links then.
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