Re: Aw: Re: rsync remote raw block device with --inplace

These responses have been very useful. Thanks especially to *Roland* devzero at web.de because...I'm installing diskrsync . So far it looks like it pretty much works. It's written in Go, which I hadn't used before. There was a bit of a learning curve

Re: Aw: Re: rsync remote raw block device with --inplace

It was broucht up before indeed: https://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2012-June/027680.html On 12/30/18 9:50 PM, devzero--- via rsync wrote: There have been addons to rsync in the past to do that but rsync really isn't the correct tool for the job. why not correct tool ? if rsync can

Re: Aw: Re: rsync remote raw block device with --inplace

Rsync would only benefit you in terms of reducing network bandwidth (assuming it is even networking). The resulting file will be the size of the block device just like you get with dd[rescue]. You can tell rsync to write the file sparsely which would mean that any parts of the disk that have

Aw: Re: rsync remote raw block device with --inplace

> There have been addons to rsync in the past to do that but rsync really > isn't the correct tool for the job. why not correct tool ? if rsync can greatly keep two large files in sync between source and destination (using --inplace), why should it (generally spoken) not also be used to keep