Sync files locally?

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Wednesday, September 27, 2006 18:04:40 -0400 Charles Swiger 
<cswiger at mac.com> wrote:

> On Sep 27, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> What's the best way to sync files locally?
>>
>> I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server.
>
> rsync (as root) works just fine to perform local copies preserving
> permissions and symlinks and so forth.  Other people use a tar pipeline,
> or dump/restore, or cpio...

I wasn't aware of that.  Thanks, Charles.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/