I have several TB of photos, spread throughout subfolders. Each photo has an original, a watermarked resized version, and a thumbnail.
Named as such:
img1001.jpg img1001_w.jpg img1001_t.jpg
DSC9876.jpg DSC9876_w.jpg DSC9876_t.jpg
etc etc.
What I need to do, is move all of the originals to a different server. Presumably rsync is the best tool for this?
Is it possible to rsync a directory, while excluding any files that end in _t.jpg or _w.jpg? I'm not concerned about possible edge cases where the original file ends with either of those, as there are no such cases in my data.
Or am I better off just rsync'ing the whole lot, and then selectively deleting the _t & _w files from the destination?
Thanks
Yes, rsync is a good choice. Also because it works incremental so you can stop and start it when needed. By default rsync does not delete anything on remote, I believe. Yes, you can sync whole directory structures. It is possible exclude files or folders from syncing.
I think I'm using a command like
rsync -av [--exclude <excludes-file>] <source> <destination>