On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:58 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I've looked at robocopy, but it doesn't appear to have any > mechanism to skip equal files and only copy files that have changed, > even if it copies the whole file instead of a delta. (perhaps > something could be rigged with the archive bit, though rdiff-backup > may not reliably handle the dos archive bit - it's something I'd > have to look at more.)
Only copying changed files is *exactly* what ROBOCOPY is designed for. This is even the default behavior. It uses filename+size+modification_time to determine if two files are the same. ROBOCOPY also has an enromous number of logging options. Rsync is a great hammer, but every problem isn't a nail. I never use rsync for anything "local", even between two hosts on the same (switched) subnet. Rsync has quite a bit of setup overhead; simpler tools are faster when bandwidth is almost free. -- RPM -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
