[KLUG Members] Directory Tree Comparison Utilities?

[Andrew Thompson]

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 02:28, Peter Buxton wrote:
> tar is not as sexy as a live CD-R filesystem, but it obviously handles
> these incremental issues better.
> 
> Assuming your dir structure has not changed much, it sounds like you
> need to script (or find) a utility to check each file on the CD-R with
> it on the drive.
> 
> Which is why tar is better than a live CD-R filesystem.
> 
> If you like, you can copy the files to a new dir on the drive, and then
> use rsync to update it (rsync -rutl SRC DEST) and then reburn it as a
> tar file.

I think I may wind up just backing up the whole thing all over again.
One thing I neglected to mention is that this is a Windows 95 partition
I want to back up, and it looks like there's a LOT of case mismatch
between names. No idea what happened, but it ain't pretty.

Thanks for pointing out the tar utility. I'm still new to archiving on
the *nix side, and that option completely eluded me. I'll see if I can't
get what I want that way. Thanks again!

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Andrew Thompson <tempes@ameritech.net>
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