[ale] backup

[Daniel S Cox]

Marc,

At 12:35 PM 6/21/1999 -0400, Marc Vogt wrote:
>
>I have two 18 Gig drives and I would like to temporarily use 
>one of them as a backup of the other, so that it is an exact copy
>not just all the stuff in .tar files.  One drive is mounted as 
>/home/group and the other as /home/group2.

	Check out rsync.  See http://freshmeat.net, and search for it.  It has the
same options as rcp, but it can also delete files that have been deleted
from the source as you're looking for.  It also uses the "rsync algorithm"
which only sends the differences between files.  It's mainly for network
mirrors, but it'll be even faster doing what you want.

Danny