That's why I prefer to use tar; First off, with "ssh -C -o CompressionLevel=9" you get decent compression. Secondly, there is no need to compare files to and fro between machines. I imagine the whole 'do you have this' - 'no I dont' - 'this?' - 'yes I do' process rsync does will in the end be a lot more traffic than just doing 'send me everything modified after <date>'
Add to that that a perl coder should need like 5 minutes to let the backuppc extract tool use bzip2, and it becomes an interesting alternative again, don't you agree? -M ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
