Re: rsync: source and destination drive data used sizes differ

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>]

Em 19/01/2025 08:57, David escreveu:
> On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 at 02:51, Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> wrote:
> > time sudo rsync -aHSxvvv --human-readable --delete --numeric-ids --
> > info=progress2,stats2,name2 --
> > exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media
> > /*","/lost+found"} /media/user/DRIVE1/ /media/user/DRIVE2/ ; date
>
> Also, your use of --exclude looks completely wrong to me.
>
> I do not see anything in 'man rsync' (version 3.2.7) that agrees with your
> use of brace characters {}.
>
> In fact the manpage says: "--exclude options take one rule/pattern each",
> as I have shown above, which is not what you have.

That's a shell feature, it will expand to multiple --exclude options.

That does seem somewhat complicated, though. --exclude=/dev should be 
more concise (and perhaps maybe slightly more efficient).

And for those specific exclusions (except /lost+found), 
--one-file-system is probably even better, unless there is a second 
filesystem mounted somewhere inside /media/user/DRIVE1 (which seems 
unlikely).