[ubuntu-za] Copying files

[frans]

On 12/03/08 06:56, Tom Bamford wrote:
> On 7 March 2012 20:07, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com 
> <mailto:cairnsww at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I often use something like:
>
>     cp -uR /home/bill/ebooks /media/Andrew/BupBill
>
>     to back up a directory. The advantage is that if nothing has changed
>     between my current ebooks directory and the one on Andrew, there is no
>     time wasted.
>
>
> Hi Bill
>
> I know you said you wanted a GUI method, however rsync will do what 
> you want with the minimum of typing and fuss:
>
> rsync -av /home/bill/ebooks/ /media/Andrew/BupBill
>
> Perhaps you can save this, and other commands, into a shell script on 
> your disk called Andrew so that you can invoke it with a double click 
> in Nautilus.
>
> Regards
> Tom
>
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Cool thing about sync are that there are actually gui's available...but 
we are saying we want that option in a file manager, like "Overwrite If 
Newer"

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