Re: [vox] simple directory update

[Eric Nelson <en77@pacbell.nMAPSet>]

On Saturday 26 January 2002 09:52 pm, you wrote:
> cp -au /home/en /mnt/home/en
>
> This won't however remove files.
>
> Perhaps you could write a script (bash or perl)?
>

I must be a bit daft. I should have looked at the man page.  Yes it would be 
a fun perl program.  First do cp -au, then recurse thru the directorys and 
get rid of any ones that are gone in the source directory.  I just got a 40 
gig drive, and want to back up directorys across nfs, or even on the same 
machine, so after the initial copy, this should work to keep the backups 
fresh, like run it in a cron at 3am.  Thanks ;~)

> On Saturday, January 26 2002 08:02 pm, Eric Nelson wrote:
> > Suppose I copy a directory somewhere:
> >
> > cp -a  /home/en  /mnt/home/en
> >
> > Now, a week later, I want to update the destination, i.e. overwrite files
> > that have changed, or just have a newer date.  Ideally, it would be good
> > to remove files that have been removed too.  In other words, I want the
> > destination to equal the source, but physically only want to deal w/
> > files that have changed.  Is there a clean, easy way to do this?
> >
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