On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Paul graf <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Erik are you saying that the command $ rsync <source> <dest> is better
> than say # cp -r <source> <dest>


Well "better" is very subjective.

For copying small numbers of small files, there's no difference. Actually
rsync may be a tad slower than cp in that case.

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.

-Erik
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