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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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Neil Bothwick |
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