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by pmontra 1644 days ago
rsync is from 1996. I remember I told me something like "it's like rcp but only for what's changed". I agree that with hindsight mirror could be a better name and mirrordir [1] would have had to pick a different name in 1998 [2]

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/mirrordir

[2] http://www.landley.net/kdocs/als1999/Conference/PSheer2/Mirr...