On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 07:50:56PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > I can see how someone going for a minimal > > system would consider it bloat. > > +1 > > used 2 times rsync in past 10y private and professional daily use of linux > (desktop and server) > Whereas I have rsnapshot deployed at multiple sites backing up dozens of machines. I also use it to manually sync file between my network home directory and my laptop with a home-spun script that started of as probably the very first script I wrote of any meaningful size or complexity. (That was before there were good, or maybe any, solutions for automatically syncing files across multiple devices).
Of course, it is really easy to add packages to a system that has adequate space, where installing an over-bloated base/standard system to a low resource machine is more complex. Despite the enormous utility I find in it, leaving rsync out of the base system is the right thing. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
