because bittorrent stores the file list in a file and bittorrent clients use
an index for downloaded bits. rsync stores the filelist in ram.
Also, there is a patch out there for bittorrent (very easy to apply) that
allows you to make a torrent of a block device. rsync wont do this.
One more benny, you can have MULTIPLE remote peers with bittorrent allowing
you to distribute the data to 3 sites if you like and save time/bandwidth at
the same time.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Tino Schwarze <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 02:18:41PM -0600, dan wrote:
>
> > Can I offer an alternative solution? How about using bittorrent?
>
> I don't see the benefits over using the patched rsync... What am I
> missing? After all it's still read-all-blocks - compare checksums -
> transfer changes, right?
>
> Tino.
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