Number of files: 4857743
Number of files transferred: 4203266

root@c-00000051:~# pwd
/root
root@c-00000051:~# rsync -ah --progress --stats /home/hholtmann /mnt/wd750/c51/home/ -v

Number of files: 4857743
Number of files transferred: 4203266
Total file size: 487.41G bytes
Total transferred file size: 487.41G bytes
Literal data: 487.41G bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 102.48M
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 487.75G
Total bytes received: 82.42M

root@c-00000051:~# du -cs /home/hholtmann/proj/
18992676    /home/hholtmann/proj/
18992676    total
root@c-00000051:~# du -cs /media/wd750/c51/home/hholtmann/proj/
19006768    /mnt/wd750/c51/home/hholtmann/proj/
19006768    total

root@c-00000051:~# find /home/hholtmann/proj/ -type f -follow | wc -l
945937
root@c-00000051:~# find /mnt/wd750/c51/home/hholtmann/proj/ -type f -follow | wc -l
945937

/dev/mapper/vg1-lv_home /home   ext4 nobarrier,noatime,user_xattr 0 2
# I HAD to add the ,user_xattr option to match my home volume
/dev/sda1           /mnt/wd750  ext4 nobarrier,noatime,user_xattr 0 2

root@c-00000051:~# find /home/hholtmann/ -type f | wc -l
4203266
root@c-00000051:~# find /mnt/wd750/c51/home/hholtmann/ -type f | wc -l
4203266

( cd /home/hholtmann && find . -type f -exec md5sum {} ; ) > /tmp/hholtmann.md5sum
( cd /media/wd750/c51/home/ && md5sum -c /tmp/hholtmann.md5sum )

rsync -avH --delete /home/hholtmann/ /media/wd750/c51/home