[TriLUG] copying files

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

>> How did it fare?

Well as a matter of fact, blindingly fast, just as everyone 
said it would :-\

rsync'ing the whole tree is as fast as copying just the new 
files (from `find`), except that with cp, I had to first 
find all the files that were new.

thank you everybody, particularly to Alexy, Jeff and Alan, 
who figured out that I wasn't doing what everyone was 
telling me to do.

the syntax for an alternate ssh port, which wasn't in the 
rsync man pages, but which I found with google is

rsync -auvz -e "ssh -p xxx" src/foo/ user at host:/dest/foo/

To be scriptable this method needs a passwd-less ssh 
account. This isn't acceptable. At the moment, I'm hand 
starting the clients by mounting sshfs with my user account 
passphrase. Provided the clients don't crash (and they 
haven't), this is OK for testing, but won't work in 
production either (I can't go out and hand start the 
clients). A problem to be handled later.

Thanks everyone

Joe

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