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Is it true that rsync does not handle "File renames" gracefully?
There is no mechanism for rsync to track renames as it does not maintain state other than while it is running. If you rename /test/10GBfile to /test/10GBfile_newname on the source computer, then by ...
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Is it true that rsync does not handle "File renames" gracefully?
--fuzzy has already been answered but there is another interesting hack involving hard links.
After the first transfer
$ rsync -avHP --delete-after ~/family/Photos remotebox:backups
You create a hard ...
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Is it true that rsync does not handle "File renames" gracefully?
That page claims patches for --detect-renamed option were available for rsync 3.0.9. It has links to patches, link to bugzilla discussion.
My rsync 3.1.3 does not have --detect-renamed option. The ...
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