On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 09:14:13PM +0800, lina wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Shaun <deb...@gmsl.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 27/02/2012 12:49, lina wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> When I tried the rsync -rvz source destination
> >>
> >> It re-copied part of already-copied, any idea to prevent it.
> >>
> >> Thanks with best regards,
> >>
> >>
> >
> > rsync -avz

I use the -u option (update), so it only copies new stuff, or
stuff that's been modified since last sync,
but nothing that's old/unmodified.
Does this not do what you want?
My back-up is just
rsync -rvua /home/me /media/externalusbhdd

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