[CentOS] Copying files from DOS environment based on archive bit

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 23:16:13 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 15:53 -0700, David King wrote:
> > I am trying to automate a backup procedure that pushes files from  
> > the NT
> > disk to another site as a ZIP file using scp
> > [...]
> > Any ideas?!
> 
> Well, if you don't mind having three copies of the data (one on the  
> NT server, one on the server with the share mounted, and one on the  
> target server), why not use rsync? rsync can operating over ssh just  
> like scp, and it will copy data incremenetally (that is, it will only  
> copy data that has changed). You could rsync from the NT server to  
> the Linux server and again from the Linux server to the target  
> server. Or, maybe even more efficient, just rsync from the NT server  
> to the target server (then you only have two copies of the data), if  
> you can install rsync on the NT server
> 
> See "man rsync" and the various rsync tutorials around the net.

Or, leave the mount the way it is and rsync from the linux view
to wherever the other copy is stored.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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