On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 03:49:58PM -0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Heres how to find out what is generally more useful: (number > of times you use tar/the number of times you use rsync)*100 = > how much more useful tar is than rsync. I don't even know what > rsync has to do with backups that won't be transfered off the > system. Why mention it?
Hmm. I actually use rsync 10x more than tar. For most of my needs, I want a good rolling snapshot. Rsync handles that role well. I use tar when I want a dated archive. Even when doing simple local copies, I will use rsync before tar. I avoid cp whenever it is more than 1 file. vim vs. emacs qmail vs. postfix bsd vs. linux Now we have rsync vs. tar :) -Vince
