Am Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > On Wed, 7 May 2008 09:57:02 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > rsync is good, but has its own disadvantages, notably the lack of > > > compression and the reliance on the destination filesystem to > > > preserve permissions. > > > > Can you elaborate more on the latter, please? What exactly is rsync > > relying on and which fs wouldn't meet the requirements. > > FAT on an external drive, or some of the online backup systems.
Yeah, FAT was the only one I could imagine, just wanted to be sure. So nothing to worry about ;-) It would never come to my mind to backup a _UNIX_ fs to a _DOS_, ahem, fs. > > Reg. compression, I believe there's a stackable compressing (fuse) fs > > one could use. > > What is that? I was looking for such a beast a while ago, but could only > find read-only filesystems with compression, like squashfs. http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/CompressedFileSystems > Don't get me wrong, I like rsync and use it a lot, but, like anything > else, it has its limitations. The first one can be solved with fuse, the second one is a not an issue (at least for me). Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net
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