[TriLUG] copying files

[Alan Porter]

The other reason that I like 'rsync' over some sort of 'tar -cf - $(find -mtime 5) | whatever' is that the rsync solution is resilient, recovers from failures.

That is, if you had a cron job that ran this copy every 5 minutes, and for whatever reason one of the copies failed, the find/cp command would not recover the missed files, while the rsync WOULD make up for lost copies.

I sometimes even use rsync for local copies:

rsync -av /src/dir/ /dest/dir/ <-- trailing slashes important

The remote version would be:

rsync -av /src/dir/ user at host:/dest/dir/


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