On 09/29/2010 05:06 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 from the last backup! scp > would just send everything
With rsync you can also "resume" a copy, scp can't. > > On 09/29/2010 12:48 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote: >> 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 saw was a snapshot lvm was created which was mounted some where >> and I copied >> complete directory structure to some remote location. >> What is the advantage of all this hard work can simple scp or sftp not >> do the same thing? >> > > -- Compugraf -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
