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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:32:00 +0100, Daniel Troeder wrote: |
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>> While this will work perfectly well, this command is a waste of |
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>> resources. The compression ("-z") makes locally no sense, and there is |
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>> no need to tar the data (which will basically just concat files). You |
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>> will get the exact same result with |
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>> # cp -a /source /dest |
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> There is one slight disadvantage to cp in that it changed the modified |
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> time of directories to the current time, which rsync does not. I'd use |
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> rsync -ax /source/ /dest/ |
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I made a note of that command and will give that a try. I'll also read |
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the man page to see how to get it to skip /dev /sys /proc etc etc. |
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Thanks |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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