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?
Another way, although a bit more work to setup, whould be to use a "Network
block device". Unlike NFS, the server just exports the block device,
everything else (mkfs, encryption) can be done on the client.
Bye...
Dirk
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