Contents

Intro

I had an incomplete set of empty directories and they lacked my backed-up files. I found the backup that had the desired files, and the solution, as I suspected, was rsync¹. Since it was music, mostly made into Opus files with abc², I wanted to recover the files without the physical effort of re-ripping and converting them.

Command

rsync -a --ignore-existing ./Music/ ~/Music/

Footnotes

¹ https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/149965/how-to-copy-merge-two-directories

² The original effort with opus files instead of mp3, including a full journey… https://tech.toryanderson.com/2023/11/17/mass-file-conversion-using-find-and-exec/#the-full-journey-to-the-solution