[neurosetta] Syncing huge collections.

[The Doctor What]

* Dan Berger (dberger at oubliette.org) [030724 20:54]:
> Not sure about ignoring case - but you might try the --size-only flag to
> rsync and see if that prevents the same files being copied again and
> again.  Alternatively, you can specify -t which will preserve file times
> when copied and (on subsequent runs) might also help.

I'm having much better luck with this:
rsync $*\
      --modify-window 60 \
      --delete-excluded -vtrP \
      --include '*.ogg' \
      --include '*/' \
      --exclude '*' \
      /ogg/ /neuros/music/

The -t is (as you mention) saving the time stamps.  However, it
seems that either FAT or something in the implimentation via USB is
causing the timestamps to occasionally be off, so I added the
--modify-window 60, which says that the time can be off by 60
seconds and still be considered the same.

The --size-only did help.  Once I got things synced with
--size-only, I don't seem to need it anymore.

BTW: -n (aka --dry-run) helped me trouble shoot problems.

Thanks.

Ciao!


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