Good idea find / -ctime -1h |rsync -a --files-from=- / destination No perl needed. You might want mtime instead, though.
Tim Conway Unix System Administration Contractor - IBM Global Services desk:3032734776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Salter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/22/2004 04:19 PM To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: Long time needed for "Building file list" Any suggestions ? > This does bring up one point though. Is there any way to optimize file > list building? It seems like that turns into a huge bottleneck in the > "lots of files" situation. If you already know you're working with a mirror on the other end, and you know when your last sync was, and you're a moderately decent Perl hacker, you can pretty easily hack together a script that will take the output of something like find / -ctime -1h -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html