[plug] what command does the same thing as robocopy /mir?

[Andrew Furey]

On 03/03/07, Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> > Any idea why rsync -avz --delete /pub/share1 /mnt/usbdrive1 is so
> > incredibly slow? It takes longer to run than just reformatting the
> > 320GB USB drive and copying the data from the /pub/share1 directory
> > (260GB) back to it!
>
> Well, it does an md5 (or equivalent) check on every file on source and
> destination (as far as I know)

Only if you specify -c; the default is to just work on the date/time
and size to see if they're the same. Of course, if your clock was out
or something and the times are all different, then all bets are off :)

Andrew

-- 
Linux supports the notion of a command line or a shell for the same
reason that only children read books with only pictures in them.
Language, be it English or something else, is the only tool flexible
enough to accomplish a sufficiently broad range of tasks.
                          -- Bill Garrett