I'm a fairly new rsync user. I'm trying to understand rsync's creation/use of temporary files.
Situation: I've a hard drive with many directories of images such as
├── [480K] Pictures/
│ ├── [4.0K] 112007272/
│ │ ├── [ 60K] image_000.jpg*
│ │ ├── [ 70K] image_001.jpg*
│ │ ├── [ 70K] image_002.jpg*
│ │ ├── [ 60K] image_003.jpg*
...
│ ├── [4.0K] 112007275/
│ │ ├── [ 60K] image_000.jpg*
│ │ ├── [ 60K] image_001.jpg*
│ │ ├── [ 50K] image_002.jpg*
The main directory sits at about 200GB. The hard drive was corrupted, so I need to copy the files over to a backup hard drive.
I used the following command
rsync -br /media/jon/DataA /media/jon/DataB --info=progress2
During the process the new directory DataB sat about 2x the size of the original DataA. When I looked into this, I found that rsync creates some temporary files by default.
However, my concern is that these temp files can get very large (~54M). From what I've seen, they only contain paths to files being copied over. However, there are many files (over a thousand of these temp files).
Is there a better way to handle this situation? This was seriously concerning when my DataB was at 88% full.
Is it just better practice to include the flag --inplace?
