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For questions about the rsync tool, which is a Unix utility for synchronizing files across computer systems.

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How to mirror one folder to another using rsync 3.x?

If you add the itemised "-i" or "--itemize-changes" option to your command rsync will tell you why it is transferring the files. For each file you'll see a strings that looks like ">f..t......". …
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Rsync re-copying all files

If you change your command to start rsync -rvh ... to rsync -avh ... you should have more success. The way you have the command just now rsync isn't copying over date stamps. … So every time rsync does a compare the date stamps in Archive and MobArchive will not match and it'll copy over everything again. …
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how to debug configure.sh errors when compiling rsync on Yosemite

The problem is with the install of the command-line developer tools on your Mac. Try installing again with the following command. This should install the command-line tools alone. xcode-select --in …
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