On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:47:51 -0800, Grant wrote: > My laptop is currently still copying everything to my desktop system > via tar and ssh. I generally have to run rc on the desktop system > periodically to make sure network-dependent services are still running > as the desktop sometimes loses the wireless connection temporarily. > When I ran rc this morning, I saw that ssh started so it must have > stopped some time overnight as it usually does. The laptop was still > running the tar | ssh command I had started the night before. Could > the desktop be missing some of the laptop's data since the desktop > wasn't running ssh all night, or would it "catch up" now that ssh is > running?
Use rsync to make sure the copy contains an exact copy of the laptop's files. -- Neil Bothwick "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." RFC 1958 - Architectural Principles of the Internet - section 3.9
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