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(GNU) cp -au is exactly equal to rsync -au. It won't copy files that
are already up to date. It just doesn't have an equivalence to
- --delete. Therefore, when doing local copies it is often faster to do
a cp -au followed by an rsync --delete so that rsync is only bothering
with the deletions.
On 10/01/2015 04:48 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
> In message <560ce706....@sanitarium.net>, Kevin Korb
> <k...@sanitarium.net> wrote:
>
>> Yes, when it comes to local copies cp is significantly faster
>> than rsync. Without --link-dest there isn't much advantage to
>> using rsync for backups. The only thing you get beyond cp -au is
>> --delete.
>
> I just now remembered the (forehead slap) bloody obvious reason I
> decided to use rsync to make and maintain my backup drive(s).
>
> Yes, it theory I could have used something simpler... cp -R or
> else maybe cpio -p... but those just copy everything blindly. For
> my backups, I only need/want to have the NEW and/or MODIFIED files
> copied to the backup drive. (And also, of course, I need to have
> files that have been deleted on the main drive be deleted also on
> the backup drive.)
>
> Rsync does everything I want as far as making and maintaining
> backups. I could also have used FreeBSD backup & restore programs,
> but for reasons I can't really remember anymore, I concluded that
> rsync was the better option.
>
>
> Regards, rfg
>
>
> P.S. I have no idea what the -u option for cp is supposed to do. I
> guess that must be a Linux-ism. The FreeBSD man page for cp
> doesn't mention any such thing as a -u option.
>
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