On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:16:35AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm trying to make a copy of a 65Gb directory on another PC
>and *keep* it updated. ("poor mans mirroring")
>
>I thought my ol' friend 'rsync -av --delete source/ target'
>would be the answer. However, for so much data it takes
>forever to run this command just like it takes to do a whole
>copy again.
>copy again.
well it doesn't take *that* long... or maybe longer if they are small
files...
unison is designed just for this purpose, it keeps a database file of
the state so the initial check for differences is much faster.
3 downsides, the interface is so feature full it can be confusing. It
is very particular to version mismatch. The initial database generation
can be *very* time consuming.
caveat emptor.
// George
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