there was a useful rsync article in the last two LJ's you do not need a server going to rsync a file from one place ot another. you can use it like scp and you can do it securely using ssh:
rsync -vv -e ssh ./thegoods.tgz far.system.com:~ it will ask for your password on far.system.com then differentially copy the file to your home directory on far.system.com (~). password exchange will not be visible to casual observers because of ssh, and nor will the contents of thegoods.tgz. The rsync command must be available on both systems. OTOH if you are doing like Mahesh and syncing an iso, you do not need ssh, and the other end will be running rsync in server mode. Very cool. On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:50:15 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:58:30 +1200 > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > All the Gentooists use it all the time to keep the list of packages up to > > date. It comes from the Samba stable, so it works very well indeed, but needs > > a huge amount of free disc space to use as a work area. > > It uses double the space that the file takes up, as it makes a temporary > file while it is rsyncing, then changes the name of the temp file at the > end. > > So if you are rsyncing an iso, just before it ends you will have the > original file plus the temp file, ie around 1.3G. > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
