BSD equivalent of GNU/Linux cp -rpu ?

[Matthew Seaman]

On 11/01/2012 11:00, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> What is the BSD equivalent of Linux cp -rpu ?

> Idea is to backup a directory, recursively, without copying old 
> files that haven't changed.
> 
> Would I use something like rsync or pax ?

rsync(1) is the standard way of doing this.  For a nice backup system
that works using rsync and that preserves filesystem history in a space
efficient way by cunning use of hard links, take a look at rsnapshot --
http://rsnapshot.org/

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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