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[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

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/>.


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> M Harris     <><


Randall Schulz
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