I agree. rsync is fast and extremely powerful.
If in the future you need something really sophisticated, like large
companies use, try storeBackup.
Fernando
On 08/16/2017 09:57 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Use rsync instead. You'll never look back.
Janina
Linux for
Hi,
I didn't know about 'cp -Rn'. I made friends with rsync
years ago, and use it for local copies as well as to/from
remote hosts over the network.
It has flags for most of the behaviors you want.
To not clobber existing files during the copy you have:
--backup, --backup-dir and --suffix
Okay, so using the cp command with the -Rn switch is convenient for
say copying my Music folder from my home directory to an external hard
drive or the SD card for my portable Media player when the destination
already has an older copy without needing to copy everything already
present in the old
