Using --fuzzy

[Karl .O Pinc]

The backups can be on separate partitions.  What must be on one partition is the file and it's hard link.

On November 16, 2014 6:58:26 PM CST, Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>Great idea which I will keep in mind for other cases!
>
>In this case, however, the backups are on separate partitions on
>external USB drives (I have a notebook), so hard links won't work.
>
>Joe
>
>On 11/16/2014 07:38 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>> On 11/16/2014 03:53:12 PM, Joe wrote:
>>> I have a lot of files (and directories) (up to a few hundred at a
>>> time)
>>> that I get from various sources. Some time after I get them (after
>>> they
>>> are already backed up), I often have to move them around and 
>>> normalize
>>> their names.
>>>
>>> When I do this, rsync sees them as unrelated to the copies of these
>>> files which are already on the backup destination. 
>> I don't know if it suits your use case but
>> you could consider using hardlinks.
>>
>> If, instead of moving the files, you hardlinked them
>> then rsync with -H would see the files as being the same.
>>
>> (Hardlinking can only be done within a filesystem.)
>>
>> Then you'd have to delete the original filenames and
>> rsync again.
>>
>> This is only practicable if it's easy to delete
>> the old filenames, say, if all the new files
>> arrive in a single directory that can later
>> be deleted.
>>
>>
>>
>> Karl <kop at meme.com>
>> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>>                  -- Robert A. Heinlein

Karl <kop at meme.com>
Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
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