Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:32:00 +0100, Daniel Troeder wrote:
>
>
>> While this will work perfectly well, this command is a waste of
>> resources. The compression ("-z") makes locally no sense, and there is
>> no need to tar the data (which will basically just concat files). You
>> will get the exact same result with
>> # cp -a /source /dest
>>
>
> There is one slight disadvantage to cp in that it changed the modified
> time of directories to the current time, which rsync does not. I'd use
>
> rsync -ax /source/ /dest/
>
>
>
I made a note of that command and will give that a try. I'll also read
the man page to see how to get it to skip /dev /sys /proc etc etc.
Thanks
Dale
:-) :-)
