copy to destination only new files

. SE at SHCH262.com
Sat Jun 24 10:40:40 UTC 2023


You're probably right.  I've spent too much time on this and it's not 
working so.....I quit.
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*From:* Robin Lee Powell [mailto:rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org]
*Subject:* copy to destination only new files
*Date:* Saturday, June 24, 2023 at 1:14 AM
*To:* .
*Cc:* rsync at lists.samba.org

> That's how rsync operates normally; you shouldn't have to do
> anything to get that behaviour.  That's kind of the whole thing it's
> for.
>
> If you're *not* seeing that behaviour, something weird is going on.
> Possibly one side or the other is recording timestamps incorrectly.
>
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 12:57:02PM -0400, . via rsync wrote:
>> I'm using rsync to copy files from a source folder to a destination folder.
>> It works fine.  But, to save some time, what options should I use to only
>> update or copy (to the destination) files that are new and/or have a new
>> time stamp on them?
>>
>> Here's the code I use below (pretty sure the -n means dry-run)
>>
>>
>> rsync -r -n -t -v --progress -s '/Desktop/Book' '/media/Chip/Book June'
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Peter
>>
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