On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Tony Baldwin <t...@tonybaldwin.org> wrote: > 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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