On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:35:51AM -0700, Tim Conway wrote: > If it is, as you say, uncompressed, rsync will work on it as-is, finding > and sending the changes.
That was exactly my first thought, but I think he was meaning to say that the file's contents were 2GB when uncompressed, not that the file itself was not compressed. At least, that's the only way his email makes sense to me. -chris > > Tim Conway > Unix System Administration > Contractor - IBM Global Services - ODCS > desk:3039240938 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 02/04/2005 02:37 AM > > To > rsync@lists.samba.org > cc > > Subject > rsync huge tar files > > > > > > > Hi folks, > > Are there any tricks known to let rsync operate on huge tar > files? > > I've got a local tar file (e.g. 2GByte uncompressed) that is > rebuilt each night (with just some tiny changes, of course), > and I would like to update the remote copies of this file > without extracting the tar files into temporary directories. > > Any ideas? > > > Regards > > Harri > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
