When backing up a large filesystem over a network for the first time ,
I always use tar | rsh tar to populate the backup because I have found
it to be much faster than rsync.
I have always wondered why rsync is so much slower than tar in this
regard, perhaps this could be investigated. I hav
Joerg Schilling's s-tar does incremental backups:
http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/star.html
(dunno why that page is 'old' or 'private' but it seemed
like the best page off google)
Matt
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On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 06:21:13PM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> Since both tar and rsync read and write filesystems in great detail,
> they have many analogous sections of source code.
An interesting idea. Rsync 2.6.6 now has the --only-write-batch option
which can allow it to function like "ta
Hey rsync people,
Here's a really radical idea and a possible future direction for the
rsync project to explore.
It occurs to me that tar and rsync are closely related in their
purposes. "tar -c (blah) | tar -x" can be used to copy files; rsync's
setup with a sender process and a receiver proces
I wasn't trying to "reinvent the wheel" I was just trying to see if
anyone had done this. Your answer helped, so thankyou, but try not to
be so snarkey in the future, most people including myself to look things
up before we post on a mailing list.
Steve
jw schultz wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:56:40PM -0700, Steve Sills wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to setup a backup system. What I would like to do is
> have rsync create a tar file as it downloads (to save space) and just have
> it update that tar file. Can rsync create a archive on the fly,
Hello,
I am trying to setup a backup system. What I would like to do is have
rsync create a tar file as it downloads (to save space) and just have it
update that tar file. Can rsync create a archive on the fly, or does
this have to be done after its finished its transfer? I would also like
