File Copying in OSX

[philhoole]

Hi,

I am trying to do something in OSX that seems so fundamentally easy in Windows yet seems to be a bit ridiculous if what I am finding is correct in OSX.

I have a NAS box that OSX can see and I can read and write to it without problem. I want to create a backup of my iTunes folder (along with other stuff) on the NAS.

OK, so I copy and paste my iTunes folder to the NAS and all is well.

But after a week I want to backup again so I copy and paste. The problem is it doesn't seem possible just to write only new/changed files. OSX only seems to offer to replace the whole folder which can take ages when it really only needs to update a handful of files.

In Windows this is easy. Windows does a copy and merge. Is there a workaround in OSX ?

Thanks

 

[philhoole]

Thanks for the replies - I think it confirms I am not missing something obvious.

You know there are times when I am convinced Apple are just being utterly stubborn about the way they implement some things.