17 Jan
2003
17 Jan
'03
21:41
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 19:37:24 +0000
fsanta
I'm backing up a directory on our server to a clients hard disk. The directory is mounted on the client via nfs and contains subdirectories. The directory is around 1Gb. Sometimes I get a clean copy but sometimes I have missing files. Is it correct to assume that the backup should have the same file size as the original? Any ideas about the missing files and would ftp be a better bet? You might want to use rsync. Rsync is really designed as a mirror, but it also won't copy files that are already there. It also has a logging facility. rsync -auz source target Copy source to the target, and create the source directory in the target. rsync -auz source/ target Copy the contents of source.