4ee6de5c3e
In f544234 we removed the global flags from each command as it was
making each page very big and causing 1000s of lines of duplication in
the man page.
This change adds a new flags page with all the global flags on and
links each command page to it.
Fixes #3273
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date: 2019-06-20T16:09:42+01:00
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title: "rclone copy"
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slug: rclone_copy
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url: /commands/rclone_copy/
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---
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## rclone copy
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Copy files from source to dest, skipping already copied
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### Synopsis
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Copy the source to the destination. Doesn't transfer
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unchanged files, testing by size and modification time or
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MD5SUM. Doesn't delete files from the destination.
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Note that it is always the contents of the directory that is synced,
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not the directory so when source:path is a directory, it's the
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contents of source:path that are copied, not the directory name and
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contents.
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If dest:path doesn't exist, it is created and the source:path contents
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go there.
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For example
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rclone copy source:sourcepath dest:destpath
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Let's say there are two files in sourcepath
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sourcepath/one.txt
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sourcepath/two.txt
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This copies them to
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destpath/one.txt
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destpath/two.txt
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Not to
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destpath/sourcepath/one.txt
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destpath/sourcepath/two.txt
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If you are familiar with `rsync`, rclone always works as if you had
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written a trailing / - meaning "copy the contents of this directory".
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This applies to all commands and whether you are talking about the
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source or destination.
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See the [--no-traverse](/docs/#no-traverse) option for controlling
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whether rclone lists the destination directory or not. Supplying this
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option when copying a small number of files into a large destination
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can speed transfers up greatly.
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For example, if you have many files in /path/to/src but only a few of
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them change every day, you can to copy all the files which have
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changed recently very efficiently like this:
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rclone copy --max-age 24h --no-traverse /path/to/src remote:
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**Note**: Use the `-P`/`--progress` flag to view real-time transfer statistics
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```
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rclone copy source:path dest:path [flags]
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```
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### Options
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```
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--create-empty-src-dirs Create empty source dirs on destination after copy
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-h, --help help for copy
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```
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See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.
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### SEE ALSO
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* [rclone](/commands/rclone/) - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
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