30 Oct
2003
30 Oct
'03
2:26 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:33:23AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
Right. I am *sort of* familiar with rsync. I think it's part of the
technology that is behind Gentoo's emerge, isn't it?
I believe that portage/emerge uses it, yes.
I find rsync nicer for most of my needs than FTP or scp.
typically what I do is this, to push:
rsync -auv file1 file2 ... user@hostname:/path/to/where/i/want/it
or to pull:
rsync -auv user@hostname:/path/to/something .
It Just Works (tm).
The only subtle gotcha I've found is that
"rsync foo_directory ." does not mean the same thing as
"rsync foo_directory/ ."
... this is explained clearly in the EXAMPLES section of the man page.
Also I generally put this in my /etc/profile:
export RSYNC_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh
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cool. If you do this kind of thing a lot you may find rsync's added
features worthwhile. Rsync makes it very easy and fast to sync a large
directory tree where only some files have changed.