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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