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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