On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:47:19 -0500 Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu>
wrote:
> Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Yes, I am only talking about stuff in the documents folder. Music and
> > photos I will just move manually. nothing new there. Is rsync a
> > built in utility? I did a search but did not find it.
>
> rsync is a command-line utility. You would run it from the Terminal.
> It has a laundry list of options. You might want the -u (update
> option):
>
> -u, --update
> This forces rsync to skip any files which exist on the
> destination and have a modified time that is newer than the
> source file. (If an existing destination file has a modification time
> equal to the source file's, it will be updated if the sizes
> are different.)
>
> Maybe as simple as:
>
> rsync -u /time/machine/source /your/target/dir
>
> ...but wise to experiment with a copy first.
rsync -auLKnv # To run without actually doing the work ("n") and
# see what will actually be done ("v").
rsync -auLK # To do the work.
-a, --archive archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X)
-u, --update skip files that are newer on the receiver
-L, --copy-links transform symlink into referent file/dir
-K, --keep-dirlinks treat symlinked dir on receiver as dir
-n, --dry-run perform a trial run with no changes made
-v, --verbose increase verbosity
But check the Mac man page, first, to make sure the options are the same.
> ...but wise to experiment with a copy first.
Good idea.
> Get a cup of coffee and run "man rsync" in a Terminal window. You can
> pretty much ignore everything having to do with remote copies since both
> your source and destination are local.
Read the man page!
Craig
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