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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130509/bf2667c5/attachment.html>