[SunHELP] local copying with regard to symlinks and speed

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Yes and I actively use rsync for my remote copies, excellent program.
My understanding is that by design rsync is not really intended for 
local copying, there is a long post out there in response to someone's
complaint about local copying performance with rsync.
http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/msg07205.html.  Thats all
understood. rysnc definately handles the links with the -a or -l option.

Thanks for the response.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Conrad [mailto:tconrad at edisonschools.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:08 PM
To: RLMarkham at hafeleamericas.com
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] local copying with regard to symlinks and speed


Have you looked at rsync? Might not work for what you need, but then 
it'd only copy across the files that have updated since the last sync. 
Of course, this might not work at all for you. I use it on my 
~/Documents directory to mirror it between a few remote machines. It's 
about 1.2GB in size, with lots of small documents, and it takes 2-3 
minutes to sync.

Not sure about the link problem, though.

Tim

Markham, Richard wrote:

>I'd like anyone's opinion on local copying of large amounts of files from
>one directory to another,
>same owner. cp doesn't cut it since it will copy the file that a link
points
>to as opposed to the
>link itself. I currently use: cd <directory>; tar cpf - . | ( cd /newdir &&
>tar xpf - ).  This
>handles the links find, but I'm curious if I can acheive faster results
>using another method.
>Maybe gtar is an option?
>
>Thanks for any input.
>
>Solaris 8
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