Hello, I'm trying to do something that did not sound difficult, but no option I've tried seems to be working. I apologize in advance if I'm missing something obvious.
I need to sync only directories from one tree to a similar, but older tree *without* updating the modtimes of directories that already exist in the destination. Or phrased the other way, I want to entirely skip transferring or updating directories that already exist in the destination, without regard to modtime. Right now I'm using something along the lines of: rsync -nav --no-t --numeric-ids --relative --include='*/' --exclude='*' \ /media/mnt/files /media/backups/mnt/ I've also tried messing with --checksum, --ignore-existing, and --size-only to get rsync to ignore modtimes but I think most of what I'm trying is intended to work on files and not dirs. Any insights? In case you want to know... The use case is that I'm trying to get rsnapshot to work with rsync --detect-renamed, and so need to pre-populate new directories to the destination to get partial dir to operate for the rename detection... https://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2009-November/024225.html Since rsnapshot calls the preexec script and *then* rotates you end up adding the dirs to the previous snapshot too even though they did not exist when it was taken. I'm working on a specific method that would avoid this. TIA, Mark -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
