Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:04:31 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'cpdup' program, and question Message-ID: <199901260804.QAA05374@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:34:58 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.990125233440.8657D-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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Julian Elischer wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> > :Ok, dumb question, how does this improve on rdist?
> > :
> > :"This program is relatively simple in design: It takes the source and
> > :"creates as near an exact duplicate on the destination as possible. It
> > :"has the following features:
> > :
> > :Russell
> >
> > Have you ever tried copying whole trees with rdist? It isn't fun.
> > rdist can't do half the things cpdup does.
>
> and what about rsync?
rsync is both better and worse than rdist.. I find it's argument parsing
non-intuitive. Eg: if you want to copy /foo to /bar, you have to specify
it as: "/foo/ /bar" or you have a disaster in progress with --delete.
^
Cheers,
-Peter
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