On Thursday 03 May 2007 22:02, M Harris wrote: > On Thursday 03 May 2007 23:33, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > You should know that only the modification time (or the absence of > > a source file in the destination directory) is used to determine > > whether or not to copy a file. > > So, no content checking...
Nope. > > A more refined selective copy can be accomplished using the rsync > > command (which operates fine locally despite the 'r' for "remote" > > in its name). Rsync is not the easiest program to master, but it's > > very powerful. > > Can the rsync be used from cron tabs to create a file mirroring > system between several machines? Certainly. There's already a package (available in SuSE 10.0 and, I presume, in openSUSE) called rdiff-backup which does this. See <http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/>. > ... > M Harris <>< Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
