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How to use RSYNC to get unchanged files hard-linked and appended files copied locally + appended?

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I'm trying to figure out a way to use rsync (one or more times) and possibly other commands (such as cp -lr) to accomplish the following: Synchronize remote folder A to local folder B I already have a local folder C which is a previous synchronization of A I want files that are unchanged between C …

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rsync -av --link-dest C remote:A B

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Well, I didn't think I was going to be able to accomplish this until I recently discovered a nifty trick you can do with rsync, and since nobody has answered in a while I'll present my solution. The trick is when you use the following arguments: Thi…

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