I want to copy (not move) my Timeshift Snapshots (Rsync) from my existing drive to another drive. Both drives are ext4. As far as I searched I am not able to find any viable results.
If not possible, just why?
Solved
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-apple-osx-bsd-rsync-copy-hard-links/
TLDR
sudo rsync -az -H --delete --numeric-ids /path/to/timeshift path/to/destination/
Where,
-a : Archive mode (i.e. recurse into directories, and preserve symlinks, file permissions, file modification times, file group, file owner, device files & special files)
-z : Compress file data during the transfer
H : Preserve hard links (i.e. copy hard links as hard links)
--delete : Delete extraneous files from the receiving side (ones that aren’t on the sending side), but only for the directories that are being synchronized i.e. keep exact replica of your /path/to/timeshift directory.
--numeric-ids : Transfer numeric group and user IDs rather than using user and group names and mapping them at both ends.
--progress : Show progress during transfer.
--log-file="/var/log/my-rsync-script.log" : Log what rsync command is doing to the /var/log/my-rsync-script.log file.
Thanks to @skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
Original Comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/11611743