Backup: NewBee Question

Mark mhullrich at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 22:04:16 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> The difference is that cp copies files from one place to another,
> rsync works by magic however to synchronise the contents of two files,
> which may be on opposite sides of the world, without actually
> transferring any data.
>
This is just a single drastic over-simplification of some of what
rsync can do that cp doesn't, but isn't that enough?

I like rsync a lot.




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