I'm actually planning on using the cygwin rsync, yes, it's in a Windows environment. The exact paths are subject to change once I figure out how cygwin refers to them. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:16:08PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: > Just checking to make sure, you want to use rsync in a Win32 > environment and not a *nix one, yes? > > On Jun 14, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Scott Raun wrote: > > > I have a portable hard-drive which has a data tree on it, and an > > internal hard-drive with (theoretically) the same tree. They _were_ > > identical at some point in the past. I've lost track of what changes > > I've made on which. > > > > So, I'm thinking of running this pair of rsync's: > > > > rsync -tru e:\data_tree d:\data_tree > > rsync -tru d:\data_tree e:\data_tree > > > > The theory being that if the internal drive has a more recent > > date-stamp for a file, I don't want the external data over-writing it. > > And then the second copies that more recent data back out to the > > external drive. > > > > Am I missing anything here? > > > > -- > > Scott Raun > > sraun at fireopal.org > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Scott Raun sraun at fireopal.org