hard disk activity

[Paul Rubin]

"VSmirk" <vania.smirk at gmail.com> writes:
> I am needing to synchronize the file on a remote folder, and my current
> solution, which simply copies the file if a date comparison or a
> content comparison, becomes a bit unmanageable for very large files.
> Some of the files I'm working with are hundreds of MB in size, or
> larger.

Why don't you look at the rsync program:

  http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

but for that much data, just plopping it all in a huge file is not
a great approach if you can help it.  Maybe you can use a database instead.