scp and symlinks
Jorge Almeida
jalmeida
Sat Nov 20 13:18:38 PST 2004
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Ken Moffat wrote:
> I thought that was the primary advantage of rsync, that it ONLY copied files
> that differ from the destination. Once you have rsync'ed a directory,
> repeating the process is much shorter.
>
I guess so. I never used rsync until today, except for the updating of
the gentoo portage tree. Still, unison can synchronize both ways and
keep track of what files should be copied to where (and asks when in doubt).
Of course, this is not important if you want to use one of the copies
exclusively as backup.
--
Jorge Almeida
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