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I have mounted my google drive in ubuntu nad want to rsync my pictures.

I issue the command

rsync -Parvhz folder1 /home/me/GoogleDrive/Pictures/

it transfer them all. Then I re-issue the command and it again sends the whole files, though nothing has changed.

Isn't rsync suppose to transfer the diffs? Am I doing something wrong?

What I intended to do is run a cron job to rsync the whole 130GB folder to google drive every night since I rarely put photos in there. But if I have to upload again all files then we have a problem!

Thanks

Harris
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I think it should work and I don't see anything wrong with your command except one small detail that you don't need to explicitly use -r option because you are using -a option which implies it. You can try doing md5sum on files in your source and destination path, to check if they are the same. If checksums are not equal, then something is changing your files (on the source or on the destination). And yes, rsync should transfer only diffs this way.

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