[ubuntu-za] Copying files

[frans]

On 12/03/07 20:07, Bill Cairns wrote:
> Am I missing something in Nautilus?
>
> 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.
>
> I would like to do the same sort of thing using Nautilus. Copy the
> contents of this directory to that directory - but not if the
> destination directory contains a file of the same, or older,
> modification date. (yes, I could use the CLI, but that often means a
> lot of typing).
>
> Nautilus gives me the option to merge directories. But if there is a
> duplicate file name I only have the options to Skip (one at a time),
> Skip All (and that means ALL), or over-write.
>
> is there a hidden option in Nautilus that uses the cp -u option? Or is
> there another GUI interface that has such an option?
>
> Bill
>
I came across something today that might be of interest, Ultracoppier, 
It's in the repo's.
basically it's a copy manager, that allow you to overwrite older files 
automatically, have not yet tested on Linux but the windows version even 
have the ability to set block size and possibly speeding up the copy 
process, we got about 12MB/s on a 100mb/s network and higher peaks, not 
too shabby.

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Frans de Waal
IT Manager/
Dormakorp