On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Steven S. Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If this is a one off process, why bother with rsync at all. rsync is > for synchronizing data repeatedly.
The big advantage to rsync here is that it's trivially resumable. He's going to be backing up a large volume of data across the public internet and possibly to or from an unreliable internet connection. With rsync if the transfer is interrupted, a restart of the transfer will do a reasonable job of picking up where it left off. Not so with tar. I'm with Jonathan, the rsync manual page is excellent. Here's an example incantation: % rsync -a /my/local/dir/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/my/remote/dir/ The trailing slashes on directory names are important to rsync as it tells rsync you want it to recurse into those directories. Hope this helps, -- Brandon D. Valentine http://www.brandonvalentine.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
