What is syntax to copy only new files?

[mike havens]

man... you guys are so knowledgable!

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:21 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:

> rsync is built for stuff like this.  I use the following in one of my sync
> routines.  Your flag may vary:
>
> rsync -avvz /path/to/source /path/to/dest
>
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> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Josef Lowder <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>
>> What is the syntax to copy only new files from a CD backup to a hard disk?
>>
>> I make backups of my files onto CDs and copy them onto another computer
>> to maintain redunancy.  Probably there is a better way to do this (sync,
>> etc.)
>> so I would also appreciate knowing what is a better way to do this.
>>
>> What I have been using is this:
>>
>> cp -rp /mnt/cdrom/foldername /home/joe/foldername <E>
>>
>> That works, but I don't want to re-write files that are unchanged,
>> and I don't want to write over any files that are newer on the
>> destination system.  How should this syntax be changed?
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