Brandon, You must be Psychic :-) yes that helps a great deal. Andy
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Brandon Valentine < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
