Robin Wrote:
> So I'm not quite following your Windows rsync problem.
Specifically, do you mean:
>"I copied files A, B, and C, and there's still 3 files but each file
is bigger"
> or
> "I copied files A, B, and C to a directory containing files that I
> thought were identical using the -b flag but now there's twice as
I'm astounded you seem to think I used the -b flag but you must know that it
was you who introduced the topic of -b flag. That suggestion came after all
rsyncing was done.
I expect the -b flag will play a big role in cleaning things up.
> many files because apparently rsync thinks none of them are
> identical"
Ok, sorry to be unclear... but really I'm not writing in ancient Sanscrit here.
There was no copying done at all. Everything was and will be done with rsync.
I still have not tried the -b option but expect that to be very helpful.
I explained how I ran rsync from an Images/ directory on one linux host
directly into an Images directory on another linux host.
rsync -vvrptgoD --stats LINHOST1:/Images/ LINHOST2:/Images/
I thought the directories were too large to examine them much by hand but I
knew how they were built and knew they were at least very similar.
both structurally and content wise. So that first merge went about how I
expected there was a small overall size increase of a few hundred MB.
Then I ran "rsync -vvrptgoD winHOST:/Images/ LINHOST2:/Images/" so from the
win host to the already once merged LINHOST2:/Images. Both directories showed
quite similar size according to "du -sh" before rsyncing.
However when the rsyncing was through the LINHOST2:/Images directory had grown
considerably. I still have not examined by hand but clearly something
unexpected has happened. I expect I'll find some significant differences I'd
forgotten about.
Until I stop and examine things closely; any further discussion will be kind of
lame. I was putting off a pains taking examination but I see it must be done.
These thousands of images have built up from 2008 to late 2021 and many Phone
camera images have been added since then. So I need to be careful with them.
With that in mind I have kept backups of all three directories in their
original state.
Thank you much for your input so far. I expect to be a good little while
examining things. In fact I see now this will be a major undertaking.
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