Re: Create "thincopy": with fileystem metadata only?

2025-02-16 Thread Stein Vidar Hagfors Haugan via rsync
Oh, and since the shell instructions below are idempotent, you could put them into a script and then execute this from the tippety top of your file tree after every transfer, not caring which files are new or modified: find . -exec {} \; My use of the option is not idempotent though, so I need

Re: Create "thincopy": with fileystem metadata only?

2025-02-16 Thread Stein Vidar Hagfors Haugan via rsync
Actually... I have made an extremely small and simple patch implementing an option --time-only, and I have made a pull request for it: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/pull/719 It allows you to truncate your local files after transfer. Outside of rsync, you must then truncate the file to z