mirroring without a network

2004-02-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, this might be offtopic - please excuse if it turns out to be. I have rather big ( 20 Gb) source archives on two different machines. Unfortunately there is only a very slow network connection between these machines. To synchronize these two archives (directory trees), I'd like to generate a

Re: mirroring without a network

2004-02-10 Thread Jeremy Lin
* On Feb 10, 2004 at 10:48:28, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, this might be offtopic - please excuse if it turns out to be. I have rather big ( 20 Gb) source archives on two different machines. Unfortunately there is only a very slow network connection between these machines. Assuming that

Re: mirroring without a network

2004-02-10 Thread Joe Batt
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 21:22, Jeremy Lin wrote: * On Feb 10, 2004 at 10:48:28, Helmut Jarausch wrote: ... Depending on what you mean by very slow network connection (maybe you mean smoke signals or something), then perhaps using rsync with compression (-z) would be acceptable I agree. I