Unless there's some sort of support for rcping to Windows (it would fit
with window's general security model) I don't think that'll do it for
you.
rsync works fine for copying files locally, which from a filesystem
perspective is what you're doing if you mount this windoze box somewhere
on your filesystem. That said, as cool as rsync is, it's probably
overkill for this particular situation.
After a quick look through the manpage for GNU "cp" I noticed the "-u",
or --update flag. Assuming that most of these files aren't changing,
and that the ones that do change aren't that big, that switch should
make things happen considerably faster. Oh, and I'm also assuming that
Windows won't somehow mangle the dates to prevent something as sensible
as the -u flag from functioning properly.
Hope this gives you some ideas.
Thus spake Eric Jahn on the 24 day of the 11 month in the year 2003:
> On Monday 24 November 2003 3:47 pm, you wrote:
> > Is this directory connection a 24/7 ?
>
> no, it's not 24/7. I really just need it to run it on logout. If I used cp
> -a that would take forever. I'm leaning now toward rcp if that doesn't need
> to be installed on the file server...have to check... -Eric
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