---- On Thu, 09 Jun 2022 02:20:02 -0400 Robin Lee Powell
<mailto:robinleepow...@gmail.com> wrote ----
> It would help if you gave us an example of what you'd *want* to have
> happen in different situations, but what about the -b option? This
> will do nothing with identical files but keep both versions of
> non-identical ones.
Sorry It seemed obvious to me. Myopia is a sometime hazard for me.
I hoped by merging the slightly different directories that have grown up
partially independent but largely the same.
I wanted to pick up what ever changes has occurred in the three different
directories over time, into one directory that has everything.
I have actually done what I was proposing and in the end the size of the Merged
Images directory has doubled.
My original scheme:
Seemed to work as expected between two Linux HOSTS: There was a size increase
of about 2-300MB
But something screwy happens when rsyncing from windows to linux or unix. I
doubled the size and I'm certain any actual changes would have been fairly
small. However, I suppose if I had decided to move a major internal directory
inside Images or rename one or something... that might cause a serious problem
for rsync to surmount.
On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 12:24:16AM +0000, hput via rsync wrote:
[...]
> How can I make rsync do the work for me? So I don't end up loosing files.
>
Robin wrote
> but what about the -b option? This
> will do nothing with identical files but keep both versions of
> non-identical ones.
After pulling out the man pages and looking at that, It might be just the
thing.
I still have all original unmolested directories so I can try that and see
where it goes.
But what about the thing with windows...causing a doubling of the size of
Images?
It made me remember having rynced stuff from windows before, long ago, and
seeing some kind of nasty behavior
I might have to hand merge that directory... and egad at 285G that sounds a bit
daunting.
Thank you Robin for your thoughtful and helpful reply
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