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

[sothisistheinternet]

On 3/4/07, Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 01:00 +0900, sothisistheinternet wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 3/3/07, Patrick Coleman <blinken at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         On 3/3/07, sothisistheinternet <sothisistheinternet at gmail.com>
> >         wrote:
> >         >
> >         <snip>
> >         >
> >         > 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!
> >
> >         The -z option compresses the data with gzip as it copies,
> >         which is
> >         designed to help over network links. If rsync isn't
> >         intelligent enough
> >         to notice it's doing a local copy and so compression will be a
> >         bad
> >         idea, then turning compression on will slow the copy down a
> >         huge
> >         amount.
> >
> >         -Patrick
> >
> > Hi Patrick,
> >
> > I have no idea whatsoever why I was using z. I blame it on the
> > newborn. Either that or my alternate personality is smoking crack.
> >
> > Ari
>
> Possibly because that's what I said I used? :-)
>

I'm pretty sure you said -avc, not -avz... Now I need to look up what -c
does again :-)

Ari
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