Shell Commands/MirrorCopy

MirrorCopy - Mirrors directory trees

F=FROM/A,T=TO/A,V=VERBOSE/S,Q=QUIET/S,ND=NODEL=NODELETE/S,NC=NOCRE=NOCREATION/S, NR=NOREC=NORECREATION/S,NU=NOUPD=NOUPDATE/S,A=ALL/S,NS=NOSOFT/S,NH=NOHARD/S, DD=DELDIR/K,OD=OLDDIR/K,FP=FILEPAT/K,DP=DIRPAT/K,MNDD=MAKENODUMMYDIRS/S,S=STAT=STATS/S, B=BUF=FILEBUFFERSIZE/N,DOSBUFFERS/K/N,D=DATE/S,DATEFORMAT=DATEFMT/K,CNT=CONTINUE/S, SRD=SKIPROOTDOTFILES/S,LOG=LOGFILE/K

FROM             - Source directory
TO               - Destination directory
VERBOSE          - Displays additional information
QUIET            - Suppresses all output but errors
NODELETE         - Do not delete any entries from the destination
NOCREATION       - Not implemented currently
NORECREATION     - Do not recreate any entries in the destination, like replacing
                   a file with a directory
NOUPDATE         - Do not update any entries in the destination, but entries may
                   still be created and deleted
ALL              - Includes sub-directories in the operation
NOSOFT           - Do not copy soft links, but they still may be removed from
                   the destination
NOHARD           - Do not copy or delete hard links, but they still can get
                   overwritten by different types of entries
DELDIR           - Move files into a specified directory instead of deleting them
                   (DELDIR must reside on the same volume as TO)
OLDDIR           - Not implemented currently
FILEPAT          - Not implemented currently
DIRPAT           - Not implemented currently
MAKENODUMMYDIRS  - Not implemented currently
STATS            - Prints statistics of the mirroring operation
FILEBUFFERSIZE   - File copy buffer size in kilobytes (default 1024)
DOSBUFFERS       - Changes drive's cache buffers temporarily to this value
DATE             - Creates a date-based sub-directory where files are moved with
                   the DELDIR option 
DATEFORMAT       - Formatting string for the DATE directory, see the Date command for
                   substitution operators, but avoid using anything that produces
                   : or / characters
CONTINUE         - Do not exit on errors while modifying the destination
                   directory (doesn't affect to scanning errors)
SKIPROOTDOTFILES - Exclude files and dirs in the root dir that start
                   with a dot (.recycled and .trashcan, for example)
LOGFILE          - Write or append output to a file

Note that with the default options, all files that don't exist in the source directory will be deleted from the destination directory! Be very careful when supplying the destination directory (TO) for the progam!

The official documentation can be found from the SYS:MorphOS/Locale/Help/english/MirrorBackup.guide file.

Examples:

Create an exact mirror of a directory (files that don't exist in the source directory anymore will be deleted from the destination directory too):

MirrorCopy FROM System: TO Backup:System/ ALL

Copy changed and new files, but don't purge deleted files from the destination:

MirrorCopy FROM Work:Stuff/ TO Backup:Stuff/ ALL NODEL

Move deleted files to another directory instead of deleting them completely:

MirrorCopy FROM System: TO Backup:System/ ALL DELDIR Backup:SystemDeleted