remote copying

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:14:39 EST
"Peter Finlay" said:

>This was on a tech site but I have never used it:

Everything contained in your post is technically valid, and perfectly 
usable.  However, as previously mentioned, rsync is a lot better, 
especially if you need to copy the directory structure to another 
system across a network.

tar, cp, cpio, etc., all depend upon the directory structure being 
local to the system where the command is run.  Of course, in old 
days, we would just use an rsh command on one side to lob the tar 
command across to the remote host and catch the output locally.

However, with rsync and ssh, none of thie is necessary, and it's 
trivial to do, even while preserving permissions and time stamps.
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