On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 19:57 -0400, Anthony DiSante wrote: > Actually, rsync is not the transport in this scenario, SSH is. The Windows > system doesn't need to have rsync installed. I'm using rsync because I want > to sync many files within the directory tree (not shown in my example, which > was simplified to just foo.txt to show the error).
You need an rsync installed on both ends no matter what. The sending rsync tells ssh to execute another rsync on the other side; the two processes then communicate across the ssh connection. Each rsync manages reading and writing the files on one end and can perform the necessary algorithms to minimize the amount of data sent over the connection. It would be much more difficult to write an rsync that could operate solely by talking to the remote shell and issuing commands like cat, stat, and chmod, and synchronization would be several times slower. -- Matt McCutchen, ``hashproduct'' [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mysite.verizon.net/hashproduct/ -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
