--compare-dest; I'm missing the boat

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Sat Jan 17 02:04:05 GMT 2009


On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 06:11:36PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
> In other words the full directory structure minus any plain files.

Right, that's what compare-dest does.  It only copies changed files,
omitting all files that haven't changed between the source and the
alternate destination.  If you want hard-links to the d1a files, you
can use --link-dest.

..wayne..


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