I am struggling to understand exactly what the rsync options --update and
--append-verify do.
Doing info rsync gives
-u, --update
This forces rsync to skip any files which exist on the destina‐
tion and have a modified time that is newer than the source
file. (If
--archive is all you really need. I actually wish --archive was the
default because it is all most people need and with the exception of
writing to a FAT filesystem it is almost always needed.
--append is for very special cases and should only be used if you really
know you need it and why. --ap
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On Saturday, September 11, 2021 11:20 PM, Kevin Korb via rsync
wrote:
> --archive is all you really need. I actually wish --archive was the
> default because it is all most people need and with the exception of
> writing to a FAT filesystem it is almost always ne
I thought I did elaborate. If it is a problem for you then maybe you
shouldn't be using --update. Or you should let rsync delete incomplete
files upon abort as it does by default.
On 9/11/21 9:29 PM, hancooper wrote:
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> On Saturday, September 11, 2021 11:20 PM,
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On Sunday, September 12, 2021 2:03 AM, Kevin Korb wrote:
> I thought I did elaborate. If it is a problem for you then maybe you
> shouldn't be using --update. Or you should let rsync delete incomplete
> files upon abort as it does by default.
I am using the follo
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On Sunday, September 12, 2021 2:34 AM, hancooper via rsync
wrote:
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> On Sunday, September 12, 2021 2:03 AM, Kevin Korb k...@sanitarium.net wrote:
>
> > I thought I did elaborate. If it is a problem for you then maybe you
> > shou
--inplace can prevent rsync from running you out of disk space when
updating a large file. But you don't want to mix it with --update.
Judging by your other message you think that --update means modiify
files that are already on both ends. It doesn't. It only means that
rsync is forbidden to ch
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On Sunday, September 12, 2021 5:10 AM, Kevin Korb wrote:
> --inplace can prevent rsync from running you out of disk space when
> updating a large file. But you don't want to mix it with --update.
> Judging by your other message you think that --update means modi
