On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Joe Sloan wrote: > Rodney Baker wrote: > > rsync --logfile=/var/log/home_backup -Ca /home/<username> > > /backup/<username>. > > > > This just compares each file in /home/<usersname> with its corresponding > > file in /backup/<username> and copies any that are new or have changed, > > resetting the archive bit for each file. > > Not to nitpick, but actually, rsync is smarter than that - it only > copies the diff between the parts that have changed. > > If your data to be backed up consists of 2 10GB files, and you make a > slight change (say 5 few kbytes) to each, rsync wouldn't copy 20 GB, but > rather just the changed 10 kb, plus a bit of overhead. > > Joe
You're right - I remember reading that but I'd forgotten it. Thanks for the clarification. -- ====================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV [EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
