I have 5 or 6 :-( different copies of a filesystem on various Linux boxen, all backups taken at different times, with different exclusions, and squirreled away. Now's the time to clean up my attic. I'd like to merge them all into one big filesystem. When there are different copies of the same files, I'd like to keep the newest; I don't know what else to do. My plan (assuming I'm going to retain 'path0' as the surviving filesystem) goes like this:
rsync -azPv -u path-to-system-1 path0 rsync -azPv -u path-to-system-2 path0 rsync -azPv -u path-to-system-3 path0 rsync -azPv -u path-to-system-4 path0 rsync -azPv -u path-to-system-5 path0 and then rm -rf "path-to-system-?", and hope for the best. What kind of disaster can I look forward to with this approach, and is there a better one? Thanks! -- _________________________________________ Nachman Yaakov Ziskind, FSPA, LLM [email protected] Attorney and Counselor-at-Law http://ziskind.us Economic Group Pension Services http://egps.com Actuaries and Employee Benefit Consultants -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
