On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:08:35 +0100, Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony at wanadoo.fr> wrote: > What's the safest and most elegant way to copy an entire directory tree > such that only newer files and directories are actually copied? > Have a look at "rsync" http://rsync.samba.org/ It is in ports ;) [snip]