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From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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--On Wednesday, September 27, 2006 18:04:40 -0400 Charles Swiger=20
<cswiger@mac.com> wrote:

> On Sep 27, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> What's the best way to sync files locally?
>>
>> I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server.
>
> rsync (as root) works just fine to perform local copies preserving
> permissions and symlinks and so forth.  Other people use a tar pipeline,
> or dump/restore, or cpio...

I wasn't aware of that.  Thanks, Charles.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
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