scp and symlinks

[Dr. Jones]

Jorge Almeida wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Kurt Wall wrote:
>
>>
>> A workaround is to use rsync:
>>
>> rsync -r -e ssh path user at host:/path
>> rsync -r -e ssh user at host:/path path
>>
>> -r tells rsync to recurse into directovies. -e ssh specifies the remote
>> shell (ssh in this case) for rsync to use.
>>
> It works great (I added the -l flag).
> Thank you.

Just curious how rsync compares with using scp? I routinely invoke scp 
on my linux box at home to transfer files from work, instead of having 
to find the right zip disk, a la :

scp scott at my.ip.numberat.work:/usr/archive/blah/blah/blah/*  
/home/scott/archive

It seems to work pretty well, and I always have a backup of my data 
files. What interests me about rsync is the "sync" part of the name. I 
would like to set up a better backup and/or transfer routine that will 
just grab all the files newly created or changed on my work machine. Is 
there a way to run either rsync or scp on a batch file, to have it just 
grab the files new or altered on a given day, or even better, just the 
changed portions instead of downloading the entire files?

Scott

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