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Re: copy partition from a remote server



On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 05:59 +0200, Frederic Guillet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i want to run a daily back-up of an entire HD (160GO) remotely. 
> 
> Do you know any tool that can perform this on an incremental basis? 

rsync. That's almost EXACTLY what it's made for in the first place.
It'll compare the checksums for remote files to local files and only
transfer changes. (Meaning that if you've only changed 1MB worth of data
in your 160GB HD, it'll only transfer 1MB of data + communication
overhead.)

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