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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers rsync v. unison Post 302079720 by jim mcnamara on Wednesday 12th of July 2006 12:53:47 PM
Old 07-12-2006
I'm assuming you're on Linux/cygwin. rsync (samba.org) does in fact do differences on files and update only those files which show differences.

We run rsync from a simple script from cron to keep remote file servers up to date.
We're running it under cygwin on Windows boxes.
 

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