[TriLUG] copying files

[Robert Dale]

You don't need rsyncd.  But you do need some transport protocol. For
instance, with ssh:

rsync -az -e ssh user at server.com:/some/dir /to/here


On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, David Both wrote:
>>
>>> All I am doing is suggesting you try it. What do you have to lose?
>
>
> I thought rsync was more difficult to use than it is. In the section on "how
> it works"
>
> http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/
>
> you need an rsyncd running at the other end
>
> As it turns out it takes about 75 secs for rsync to sync up the two ends
> before it starts copying. cp -auv --parents or Jeff's cpio are faster. rsync
> is simpler to use, you don't have to find the files to copy first.
>
> Using the cp --parents or cpio method, if something goes wrong (eg I change
> the script and it doesn't work), I then run rsync to recover.
>
> Sean Korb's idea of doing both, ie selecting the new files then rsyncing
> them seems best. I know the directories that have just been copied, so I can
> run rsync on just them.
>
> I haven't tried parallel yet. It only seems to work on commands rather than
> bash subroutines.
>
> Thanks everyone
>
> Joe
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Robert Dale