Merging three slightly different directories
Robin Lee Powell
robinleepowell at gmail.com
Thu Jun 9 06:20:02 UTC 2022
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.
On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 12:24:16AM +0000, hput via rsync wrote:
> I want to merge 3 slightly different directories of mostly images.
>
> Not just mostly but the vast majority are images files.
>
> Each directory has about 285 GB of files.
>
> At first I thought I would just run a straightish rsync from each directory
> inturn starting with the biggest which is not much bigger ... maybe
> a few MB.
>
> Like:
>
> rsync -vvrptgoD --stats /biggest/ /emptydir/
>
> rsync -vvrptgoD --stats /next-biggest/ /same-dir/
>
> rsync -vvrptgoD --stats /smallest/ /same-dir
>
> But after some thought I'm guessing that might be wrong headed way to go.
>
> All three dir have mostly the same stuff in them and in the same
> places but a close inspection, given the 285 GB would be pretty much a
> non-starter.
>
> There will be thousands that have matching names maybe newer or older
> bigger etc. And maybe some of the same stuff but in slightly different places.
>
> How can I make rsync do the work for me? So I don't end up loosing files.
>
>
>
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