On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:03:00PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > I think the same idea occurred to me a while back but rsync > refused to use a device directly.
Annoying. Could be patched in rsync, though. I bet that Wayne would consider an option to do this. > You'd probably want to fill > all the empty space with nulls every time too, so you don't > transfer all the changes where files have been deleted. Wouldn't matter except on the first transfer, since on the target would have the same junk in the empty areas. Might actually take more time to transfer - even with compression some representation of the nul bytes has to be sent, but i bet it would be noise in the total transfer. *would* mean lots more disk writes, once to put in all the nuls in the first place and once to put them in on the target. danno -- dan pritts - systems administrator - internet2 734/352-4953 office 734/834-7224 mobile ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
