Subj : Re: mirdir utility
To   : Paul Quinn
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Fri Mar 22 2019 11:45:36

Hi Paul,

On 2019-03-22 20:18:38, you wrote to me:

 WvV>>>>   --delete                delete extraneous files from dest
 WvV>>>> dirs

 PQ>>> Ah, kewl.  I have a couple of scripts using it that can be
 PQ>>> fine-tuned now. Thank you, kind sir.

 WV>> You might want to spend a couple of minutes reading 'man rsync'. Very
 WV>> usefull! ;)

 PQ> No.  I've used mirdir for *over* a decade, and will continue to do so.  In
 PQ> desperation I tried rsync _once_ in two scripts, to do essential backups
 PQ> last year (August).  I've updated the two rsync scripts per your
 PQ> suggestion, for completeness only.  Mucha gracias.

I'm also using something similar in some old backup scripts: 'mirrordir', which 
I don't think is the same as your 'mirdir'. Which also seems to suffer from a 
32 bit problem, because it doesn't handle files over 2GB in size.

Nowadays I always use rsync...

Bye, Wilfred.

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