knitti wrote:
if I'm not completely wrong, you could always tar -czf the sparse file, scp the
archive and then tar -xzf the file in place in the other side. this should also
create a new sparse file. of course, you lose the rsyncabilty and you have to
identify your sparse file in advance. But 16GB of nothing should compress
very well ;)
Only two things here.
1. "you have to identify your sparse file in advance."
That is the question. Look at the title.
2. The point of be able to use rsync is to put it into a cronjob and
have the transfer of what changed only and forget it.
Neither are accomplish with tar.
I appreciate the thought never the less.
Thanks
Daniel
