Sorry - yeah I specified the Gzip after!
Thanks! On 2/14/03 1:35 PM, "David Busby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spit this out onto my computer screen: > AFAIK TAR just stuffs everything into one file, no compression. > Gzip after TARing > > /B > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "DuSTiN KRySaK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Redhat Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 13:32 > Subject: Re: Sync a folder? > > >> Thanks! >> >> I think I might actually just do it with TAR - it seems to work fine, and >> then the output is compressed too. >> >> >> >> >> >> Dustin >> >> On 2/14/03 12:40 PM, "Sites, Brad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spit this out onto >> my computer screen: >> >>> DuSTiN KRySaK wrote: >>>> Hi there - I am wondering what the best command is to use to sync one >>>> folder with another? I am simply backing up a folder to another >>>> drive, and I know I could just copy over, but I want the backup to >>>> have any files removed that I may remove out of the original.... >>>> >>>> I'm just going to throw it in a shell script and get cron to run it >>>> nightly. >>>> >>> >>> <OPINION> >>> Try rsync. It's a great tool for doing exactly what you want in a > single >>> command. >>> >>> Probably something like: >>> >>> rsync -Caz /source_dir/ /destination_dir >>> >>> Check out the man page for rsync to make sure what switches you need. > Rsync >>> will also work across machines if you need it to. >>> >>> Only need to put the one command with the correct switches in cron, so > you >>> wouldn't need to create a shell script. >>> </OPINION> >>> >>> HTH, >>> Brad Sites >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> redhat-list mailing list >> unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
