Starting with find and rsync? and How to rsync files / folders from a specific date forward?, how to rsync photos from a specific date, namely from the date on which the photo was taken (i.e., from the photo's meta data, i.e. EXIF, e.g., exif:DateTime, which may well differ from the file's "last modified date") forward?
One idea would be to make use of identify -verbose IMG_20200430_113445.jpg | grep -i date and exif:DateTime within, another would be to use exiftool (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48582185/only-get-datetimeoriginal-with-exiftool) for that. Maybe this and elements of the two Q&A's quoted above would work?
That is, combining the ideas from the two above quoted Q&A's (and perhaps also this one) with this
identify -verbose IMG_20200430_113445.jpg | grep -i date, returning exif:DateTime
or this
exiftool -DateTimeOriginal IMG_20200430_113445.jpg
might be "the" way...
See also:
This is the command I used to copy my 2022 files to my photo subdirectory. Iphone mounted at /mnt/iPhone and files are in /DCIM/103APPLE Destination is my photos, with different folders for each year.
I do not normally use second date as year to date.
Backup photos (*.jpg's) shot after a certain date
The following approach uses rsync and exiftool (and not find and identify).
Filter
To get a first idea of the number of files which meet the filter's criteria one may start off with
Dry-run
Next, one may do a "dry run", to see what would be copied in the next step, with
Sync
Finally, one may perform the actual "copy" operation, by removing
-nfrom the above line, like so:Related links:
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