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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

A more complex but more commonly used program is rsync

rsync -rav /home/user/Documents /mnt/usbdrive is treated differently than rsync -rav /home/user/Documents/ /mnt/usbdrive which is different than rsync -rav /home/user/Documents /mnt/usbdrive/ which is different than rsync -rav /home/user/Documents/ /mnt/usbdrive/

It's a great tool for making copies onto drives, even servers. But man you have to double check how each folder path is laid out, otherwise it'll write the files of one folder to the main drive, unorganized.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I recommend --dry-run and reading the stdout with human readable output -h. And dont use the --delete flag if you dont know what will happen 😓