Using rsync to synchronise folders without overwriting files of same name on Mac OS X

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Published on 2012-02-02T11:19:05Z Indexed on 2012/10/18 11:04 UTC
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I would like to synchronise the contents of two directories.

  • Without overwriting but to create a copy if two files have the same name, but different sizes
  • Without duplicating if two files have the same name and size.
  • To work recursively

So far I have found the following command which might work

 $ rsync -varE --progress ~/folder /volumes/server/folder

But I'm not entirely sure what the -E flag does. It was suggested by a user on bananica.com but couldn't see a description for it in the manual. Would this do what I require successfully?

Thanks

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