copying files (overwriting)

[George Georgiou]

I use rsync for this even between machines

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[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Kim Briggs
Sent: Tuesday, 24 January 2006 12:40 PM
To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
Subject: Re: copying files (overwriting)

On 1/23/06, Toby Kelsey <toby_kelsey at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> René wrote:
> >
> > hi gnome users
> > i want to copy files to an other harddisk, but only newer versions of
> > files or complete new files should be written to it. Nautilus now only
> > asks me, if i want to overwrite a certain file which does already exist.
> > I  want to understand with which 2 versions of a file i am dealing at
> > such a  moment. how to achieve that? response on that would be kind.
> > regards, René
> >
>
> Maybe the 'rsync' or 'unison' commands (packages) would be useful for
this.
>
> Toby
>
rsync, indeed.

http://kimbriggs.com/computers/computer-notes/linux-notes/basic-samba-setup.
html

scroll to "arrange nightly backups"

HTH,
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