I think the objective here is to copy the files directly from one drive
to the other. No intermediate files or tarball required. ;)
You could use tar on both sides w/out ever having the tarball directly
on a disk by piping it through ssh. I think rsync's the best solution
though, given that he only wants to transfer files that have changed.
JD Austin wrote:
> Instead of writing all of the files to the disk make a tar ball and
> write that to the disk.
> tar zcpvf tarball.tar.gz /sourcedir
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs@shubes.net
> <mailto:ejs@shubes.net>> wrote:
>
> joe@actionline.com <mailto:joe@actionline.com> wrote:
> > What is the procedure and syntax to 'rsync' all of a specific set of
> > directories and files from one computer to another that are on
> the same
> > network?
> >
> > I have been burning DVDs on one computer and copying those files
> onto my
> > other computer(s), but when I download all those files, the
> permissions
> > are all changed to be non-writeable files and directories.
> >
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 9598 Feb 2 15:18 filenames
> > dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 6144 Feb 2 21:06 directory-names
>
> The files are not writable on the DVD, so when the DVD is copied to the
> HD, they remain not writable.
>
> > Is there some way to globally fix that?
>
> The chmod command has an -R option. Otherwise, normal file name pattern
> matching applies.
>
> > Or would 'rsync' be a better solution?
> >
> > I've never used 'rsync' and after reading the 'man' pages, I'm still
> > confused.
>
> There are examples in the rsync man page. What specifically do you not
> understand?
>
> We can't really give you the command you'd need to use without knowing
> more specifics about the set of directories and machines (ip addresses?)
> you're dealing with.
>
> > Is there a way to do this to preserve the file dates
>
> There is a -p flag for the cp and scp commands which does this.
>
> > and only copy those
> > files that are newer (have more recent dates) onto the target system?
>
> You'll need to use rsync for this part.
>
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