[SunHELP] syncing/copying files

[P Nutton]

> From: David Bishop <tech at bishop.dhs.org>
> 
> I am tasked with syncing two directorys, sort of.  I have a 
> large directory 
> with a ton of files (10K+) of which I want a subsection 
> copied over to 
> another directory.  Luckily, all the files I want to move are 
> prefaced by 
> known strings (foo, bar, boz), so I wrote a 5 line perl 
> script that slurps up 
> a config file that lists all the prefaces we want to copy, 
> then does a 
> 
> foreach $preface ($blah){sytem("cp $preface* /target") or die;}.  
> 
> That works great.  However, next time I run the script, it 
> copies all the 
> same files over again, plus the few additional files.  This 
> is significant 
> because even the subsection is 1500+. My question is: how do 
> I copy only the 
> new files?  I couldn't find an option in man|info cp that 
> would look to see 
> if the files are already there and skip if they are, though 
> there are a ton 
> of 'overwrite|symlink|hardlink|whatever' options.  Has anyone 
> done this 
> before?  Am I using the Right Tool for the Right Job?  Any 
> help would be 
> greatly appreciated.

Hi,

I just use filesync, out of the box solaris, seems to work ok, I have used
it on directories up to 30 GB, 1 Mfiles or more. Not wonderfully fast
though....
-- 
Paul Nutton
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