Hi Rusty,

Thanks for your detail advice and time spent.

At 07:56 AM 1/7/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>None of these can be told by inspection of the box, eh?  Maybe
>the documentation will tell, maybe not.
>
>And, admittedly, its somewhat esoteric and not REALLY important
>to most network setups that do not load their network much.
>
>But, if you CAN tell, at the store, which kind of switch  you've
>got, get the fastest one ;-)

OK

>On a side note, if you want unattended synchronization of files
>and/or directories, give rsync a look.  It can be configured to
>only transfer the parts of files that have changed - so if you
>have a 200 meg file, and only 10 meg has changed, then it will
>transfer just the 10 meg (or so) thats different.

Oh, this feature is quite interesting.  I recall in Win OS (I can't 
remember the exact software, maybe WordPerfect) that it you want to 
copy/update the whole directory to another drive for storage purpose it 
only updates the files having been changed.  It saves lot of time.

>I think rsync might be on sourceforge,
>give http://www.freshmeat.net a search for rsync...)

I found it on
http://www.rsync.org/

Thanks

B.R.
Stephen


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