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Overwrite an USB flash drive to update only the changed files
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<blockquote data-quote="Ember1205" data-source="post: 1750721" data-attributes="member: 374272"><p>You could write a script to do this using rsync. You would "manage" your photo library in a directory structure on your local hard drive and then leverage rsync to mirror that structure onto the removable drive. If you're not comfortable on the command line, it would be a difficult exercise. If you do, however, have some familiarity with the command line and have even done a little scripting in a previous life, it should be fairly easy.</p><p></p><p>You'd essentially do a "local" sync of one directory to another with the source being the directory where you manage the original files and the destination being the USB drive after it's mounted to the filesystem. You can leverage a command line option to delete files from the destination if they are removed from the source (this covers you for actually removing files as well as moving a file from one directory to another).</p><p></p><p>If you want to read about the rsync tool, check here: <a href="http://www.tecmint.com/rsync-local-remote-file-synchronization-commands/" target="_blank">http://www.tecmint.com/rsync-local-remote-file-synchronization-commands/</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>With regard to flash drives being comparatively unreliable, there's definitely some grains of salt to take that statement with (IMHO).</p><p></p><p>Making a backup is a good thing. Period.</p><p></p><p>Using ANY medium for that backup is a good thing. Period.</p><p></p><p>Time Machine or Carbon Copy as the "manager" of the backup has no additional value if the medium being backed up to is still the same unreliable storage that would be used without it.</p><p></p><p>In an ideal world, backups would be made to multiple locations at the same time, stored on different kinds of mediums, and at least one would be physically off site (in the cloud). Everything costs sometime. Money, time, effort, etc. Make your own decisions on just how priceless something is when you decide how, when, and where to back it up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ember1205, post: 1750721, member: 374272"] You could write a script to do this using rsync. You would "manage" your photo library in a directory structure on your local hard drive and then leverage rsync to mirror that structure onto the removable drive. If you're not comfortable on the command line, it would be a difficult exercise. If you do, however, have some familiarity with the command line and have even done a little scripting in a previous life, it should be fairly easy. You'd essentially do a "local" sync of one directory to another with the source being the directory where you manage the original files and the destination being the USB drive after it's mounted to the filesystem. You can leverage a command line option to delete files from the destination if they are removed from the source (this covers you for actually removing files as well as moving a file from one directory to another). If you want to read about the rsync tool, check here: [url]http://www.tecmint.com/rsync-local-remote-file-synchronization-commands/[/url] With regard to flash drives being comparatively unreliable, there's definitely some grains of salt to take that statement with (IMHO). Making a backup is a good thing. Period. Using ANY medium for that backup is a good thing. Period. Time Machine or Carbon Copy as the "manager" of the backup has no additional value if the medium being backed up to is still the same unreliable storage that would be used without it. In an ideal world, backups would be made to multiple locations at the same time, stored on different kinds of mediums, and at least one would be physically off site (in the cloud). Everything costs sometime. Money, time, effort, etc. Make your own decisions on just how priceless something is when you decide how, when, and where to back it up. [/QUOTE]
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