<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Paul graf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pj.world@hotmail.com" target="_blank">pj.world@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Erik are you saying that the command $ rsync <source> <dest> is better than say # cp -r <source> <dest></blockquote>
</div><br>Well "better" is very subjective.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>For copying small numbers of small files, there's no difference. Actually rsync may be a tad slower than cp in that case.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>However, for large numbers of small files or any number of large files/directories, rsync is nearly always the best choice due its ability to pick up where it left off if the process gets interrupted somehow.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>-Erik</div></div>