Re: --compare-dest -- copy ONLY files with content-differences between 2 directories... to a third

r instead of > - --checksum and --compare-dest but I have not tried to do this before. > > On 01/29/13 18:13, John Reye wrote: > > Hello, > > > > thanks for the reply, but I must confess: I don't understand it. > > > > How would I go about using rsync to copy o

Re: --compare-dest -- copy ONLY files with content-differences between 2 directories... to a third

: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > With -a you are telling rsync to copy the timestamp difference. It > can't set a timestamp on nothing. > > On 01/29/13 17:58, John Reye wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble wi

--compare-dest -- copy ONLY files with content-differences between 2 directories... to a third

Hi, I'm having trouble with --compare-dest, to copy only files that differ in content. Here are the commands used thusfar: rsync -av --checksum --delete --progress --stats --compare-dest=../old new/ new_archive rsync -av --checksum --delete --progress --stats --compare-dest=../new old/ old_ar