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rsync: My preferred rsync backup command -a : Recursive, including owner and group, permissions (a for archive) --delete : Remove everything that exists on the target, but does not exist on the original -v, --progress, --stats : This will keep you up to date on the progress -h : Filesize will be shown in human-friendly format
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rsync -avh --delete --stats --progress /media/original/ /media/target
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Alternative for an NTFS-formatted target. Expanded -a to it's full form and removed, from this full form of -a, those options that NTFS does not support. This should avoid 'full rewrite' behaviour.

rsync -vhrtD --delete --stats --progress /media/original/ /media/target

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