On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:02:47PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 15/06/10 12:44, Alan Chandler wrote: > >> The real magic command is "cp -alf" which essentially merges a shorter >> term store with a longer term one, making new entries where the shorter >> store has a file that isn't in the longer term store, and overwriting it >> where the shorter term store has a file with the same name as the longer >> one. > > I should have added, it does this virtually instantaneously because it > is not moving anything, just dealing with hard links. Links are no way to handle back-ups. If the data goes bad, that just means there's multiple places you can't get at it from. Cheers, Tom -- What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. -- Wittgenstein
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