rsync is bad

[Karl Larsen]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 15:21 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>   
>> Rsync's strength is in file copies ACROSS a network because it only
>> copies the changed parts of files across.  When you use rsync on a
>> computer to copy from one drive to another, it uses the local drive
>> mode and it does not try to copy just the changed parts.  It is no
>> better than running "cp -Ra x y" to copy recursively in archive mode.
>>     
>
> Even locally, it uses its differential copy algorithm.  e.g. if the
> files are the same, it does not copy them.
>   
    Yes I use rsync that way and it works fine.

Karl


-- 

	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
   PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C  ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7