On 5/31/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
In both modes, rsync must be installed on both machines. When you tell your rsync to copy your backup to a remote box, if the same file already exists and you tell it to overwrite, rsync will compare the differences and only send the differences over the wire, speeding up the transfer greatly unless the files differ greatly.
Thanks for the nice review! I was looking for the same feature in Gnu tar. It does have the update feature but somehow it doesn't seem to work. ANd it certainly doesn't work if the tar file is g/bzipped (with the z/j option). I hope rsync will work here. I could then run th backup script as a cron job daily. It should only send the differences since there won't be a big difference for incremental backups. BTW, what is the measure of this difference for rsync? Anyway, I'll go ahead and install it. IF there's some nice tutorial page about rsync, you or someone can mention that will be great too! Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.