Re: How do you copy files from one location to another?

From	Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject	Re: How do you copy files from one location to another?
Date	2011-06-18 16:52 -0400
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On 6/18/2011 1:13 PM, Michael Hrivnak wrote:
> Python is great for automating sysadmin tasks, but perhaps you should
> just use rsync for this.  It comes with the benefit of only copying
> the changes instead of every file every time.
>
> "rsync -a C:\source E:\destination" and you're done.

Perhaps 'synctree' would be a candidate for addition to shutil.

If copytree did not prohibit an existing directory as destination, it 
could be used for synching with an 'ignore' function.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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How do you copy files from one location to another? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-06-16 22:06 -0700
  Re: How do you copy files from one location to another? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-06-17 01:15 -0500
  Re: How do you copy files from one location to another? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-06-17 19:25 +1200
    Re: How do you copy files from one location to another? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-06-17 09:17 -0700
      Re: How do you copy files from one location to another? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-17 15:23 -0400
        Re: How do you copy files from one location to another? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-06-17 14:27 -0700
          Re: How do you copy files from one location to another? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-17 15:15 -0700
            Re: How do you copy files from one location to another? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2011-06-17 16:28 -0700
  Re: How do you copy files from one location to another? Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2011-06-17 09:04 +0100
  Re: How do you copy files from one location to another? Heather Brown <heather@dejaviewphoto.com> - 2011-06-17 12:43 -0400
  Re: How do you copy files from one location to another? Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak@hrivnak.org> - 2011-06-18 13:13 -0400
  Re: How do you copy files from one location to another? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-18 16:52 -0400

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