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I am migrating my old server to new server . I used this server for hosting website . first I tried sftp but due to huge number of files and connection time out , it simply didn't work . then I tried rsync .rsync working good , but only problem I am facing it updating file very nicely & fastly but do not copy new files please help me . because still i need to transfer lots of file. I am using this command : rsync -anv -e ssh oldserver:/path/ /path

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could you give more information. Is it identical hardware/software? What operating system is it? – The Unix Janitor Mar 20 '10 at 19:20
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-n means 'dry run', as in, no files are actually copied.

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seriously , lemme try , such a silly mistake i was doing – vinayrks Mar 20 '10 at 19:44
thanks thanks it working – vinayrks Mar 20 '10 at 19:53
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