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rsync / Synology / @eaDir

Setting up a backup strategy on a Synology NAS, I SSH in to locate volume and share mount points and do a dry-run rsync of a movies directory from the NAS to a USB drive. The first run surfaces thousands of @eaDir entries, which turn out to be Synology metadata files likely produced by the indexing service, and I end the post by excluding them via the –exclude option...