Am Samstag, 7. März 2009 17:04:17 schrieb Grant:
> I'm backing up numerous large files on another machine on my local
> network.  I've only been using rsync, but it occured to me that I
> might be able to save some time and space if I incorporate tar and
> bzip2.  How will rsync interact with those?  If I turn the whole
> backup into a big tar.bz2, would rsync need to redownload the whole
> thing if I change one file?  If so, maybe I should turn different
> groups of files into tar.bz2 archives so rsync only needs to
> redownload an archive if one of its files has changed?

By using either rsh or ssh, tar can backup over the net, too.

Bye...

        Dirk

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