Dan Pritts writes: > An idea i had for offsites is to just run rsync against the raw device. > rsync would need to be patched to allow this, and apparently rsync has > some issues with very large files.
This should work well. However, rsync currently doesn't copy device file contents, it just mknods the device. A new option would be needed to make it open/copy device file contents. Since rsync has an inplace option (avoiding the need for a temp file) updating a remote raw device should be possible and practical. Rsync's issues with large files has been solved by dynamic sizing of the first-pass digests. Also, another optimization would be to only match blocks on whole sector boundaries, not on byte boundaries. Craig ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
