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Re: [PLUG] Backup Options
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gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
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> No. rsync is not a good way to transfer files (espeically not
> single, large archives). It's a pretty good way to keep directory
> trees in sync, which is totally not the same thing. And it's not
> really all that good a way to do that once your directory tree gets
> to a certain size. (The act of running the rsync algorithm on, say,
> the entire NetBSD source tree to get it to anoncvs mirrors takes
> a ridiculous amount of time. I'm intimately familiar with this, as
> I've been hacking together a better way to do the same thing.)
>
Have you looked at cvsup? It's designed specifically for syncing CVS
repositories (and other things) across the wire. It's a lot better than
rsync from what I've heard. (XFree86 uses it, allowing developers to
maintain a local CVS repository fairly painlessly. It's also the
FreeBSD CVS mirror sight update tool.)
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Kevin Brosius
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