Copying using a parallel directory.

[Kevin Korb]

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You want --copy-dest.
Also, you don't want --checksum.  It will only make it slower.

On 08/20/11 11:42, Stier, Matthew wrote:
> I work at a remote site, and I often use rsync to copy Unix application
> directories from the corporate site, to my own. 
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> Often these directories are  minor revisions of previous installations. 
> (ie: /base/app/1.1, /base/app/1.2  /base/app/1.2.1 )
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> I can make a copy of the previous directory under the new name, and then
> do a checksum transfer, but that may waste a lot of time, up front, in
> major version upgrades.
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> Is it possible in rsync to copy from source to destination, while
> checking a parallel directory for possible matching files, and thus
> doing a quick copy at the destination, rather than across the WAN?
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> The check could be done at the source, since the previous installation
> would be the same at both sites due to a previous rsync.
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