I'm using the latest BC 3.x for Linux. I wanted to use BC instead of rsync to sync folders from one data drive to another. I did some small tests before I copy the 3TB's of data.
During my tests I noticed a few issues with BC3 as a syncing tool
1. BC3 doesn't detect file owner/group changes. eg: I did a sync, then changed the group of a file and did a full refresh. BC3 didn't detect any changes.
2. When BC3 copies the files from one folder to the other, it doesn't keep the owner/group information. It changed the destination file's owner and group to my current user. eg: I had a file in the souce directory with owner/group as graemeg:firebird but after the folder sync the target file's owner/group was set to graemeg:graemeg
I've been using BC for many years for syncing source code, merging patches etc. I wanted to start using other features of BC too, but it seems BC needs a bit more work in that department.
I haven't tried a trial of BC4 under Linux yet, so I don't know if the above issues are resolved in v4.
Regards,
Graeme
During my tests I noticed a few issues with BC3 as a syncing tool
1. BC3 doesn't detect file owner/group changes. eg: I did a sync, then changed the group of a file and did a full refresh. BC3 didn't detect any changes.
2. When BC3 copies the files from one folder to the other, it doesn't keep the owner/group information. It changed the destination file's owner and group to my current user. eg: I had a file in the souce directory with owner/group as graemeg:firebird but after the folder sync the target file's owner/group was set to graemeg:graemeg
I've been using BC for many years for syncing source code, merging patches etc. I wanted to start using other features of BC too, but it seems BC needs a bit more work in that department.
I haven't tried a trial of BC4 under Linux yet, so I don't know if the above issues are resolved in v4.
Regards,
Graeme
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