Please describe the problem.

(dandisets) dandi@drogon:/mnt/backup/dandi/dandizarrs/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34$ git annex whereis 0/0/0/13/2/12 | head
whereis 0/0/0/13/2/12 (1 copy) 
        00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 -- web

  web: https://api.dandiarchive.org/api/zarr/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34.zarr/0/0/0/1/0/0
  web: https://api.dandiarchive.org/api/zarr/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34.zarr/0/0/0/1/1/0
  web: https://api.dandiarchive.org/api/zarr/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34.zarr/0/0/0/1/10/0
  web: https://api.dandiarchive.org/api/zarr/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34.zarr/0/0/0/1/11/0
  web: https://api.dandiarchive.org/api/zarr/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34.zarr/0/0/0/1/12/0
  web: https://api.dandiarchive.org/api/zarr/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34.zarr/0/0/0/1/13/0
  web: https://api.dandiarchive.org/api/zarr/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34.zarr/0/0/0/1/14/0
(dandisets) dandi@drogon:/mnt/backup/dandi/dandizarrs/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34$ time git annex copy --from web --to dandi-dandizarrs-dropbox 0/0/0/13/2/12
copy 0/0/0/13/2/12 (from web...) (to dandi-dandizarrs-dropbox...) ok

real    0m0.366s
user    0m0.104s
sys     0m0.042s
(dandisets) dandi@drogon:/mnt/backup/dandi/dandizarrs/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34$ git annex whereis 0/0/0/13/2/12 | head
whereis 0/0/0/13/2/12 (1 copy) 
        00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 -- web

  web: https://api.dandiarchive.org/api/zarr/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34.zarr/0/0/0/1/0/0
  web: https://api.dandiarchive.org/api/zarr/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34.zarr/0/0/0/1/1/0
  web: https://api.dandiarchive.org/api/zarr/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34.zarr/0/0/0/1/10/0
  web: https://api.dandiarchive.org/api/zarr/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34.zarr/0/0/0/1/11/0
  web: https://api.dandiarchive.org/api/zarr/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34.zarr/0/0/0/1/12/0
  web: https://api.dandiarchive.org/api/zarr/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34.zarr/0/0/0/1/13/0
  web: https://api.dandiarchive.org/api/zarr/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34.zarr/0/0/0/1/14/0

(dandisets) dandi@drogon:/mnt/backup/dandi/dandizarrs/27964c5b-6ccd-4e23-a67d-a535282bab34$ git annex list 0/0/0/13/2/12
here
|github
||dandiapi
|||web
||||bittorrent
|||||dandi-dandizarrs-dropbox (untrusted)
||||||
__XX__ 0/0/0/13/2/12

I would expect copy to make a record locally that now the content is also on destination remote, so 2nd invocation of copy --from ... --to ... --auto does nothing.

What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?

10.20230227-gb02b9cc  Debian GNU/Linux

fixed --Joey