Re: what is the advantage of using rsync over sftp

2010-10-11 Thread Peter Matulis
On 09/29/2010 06:06 AM, Ahmed Kamal wrote: I understand you want to do all the same steps, just replace rsync with scp ? Well the advantage, is that you will be doing the backups regularly, and here rsync shines, because it will only send to the remote end the files that have been changed

what is the advantage of using rsync over sftp

2010-09-29 Thread Tapas Mishra
What is the advantage of using rsync over scp or sftp? On same list I have put up a problem of taking backup of an LVM. Which I mentioned here http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?26,135008,135251#msg-135251 I used rsync but I am not clear with what is the advantage of doing all this hard work. What I

Re: what is the advantage of using rsync over sftp

2010-09-29 Thread Ahmed Kamal
I understand you want to do all the same steps, just replace rsync with scp ? Well the advantage, is that you will be doing the backups regularly, and here rsync shines, because it will only send to the remote end the files that have been changed from the last backup! scp would just send

Re: what is the advantage of using rsync over sftp

2010-09-29 Thread Tapas Mishra
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Ahmed Kamal ahmed.ka...@canonical.com wrote:  I understand you want to do all the same steps, just replace rsync with scp ? Well the advantage, is that you will be doing the backups regularly, and here rsync shines, because it will only send to the remote end