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On Wed, 7 May 2008 09:57:02 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> > rsync is good, but has its own disadvantages, notably the lack of |
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> > compression and the reliance on the destination filesystem to preserve |
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> > permissions. |
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> Can you elaborate more on the latter, please? What exactly is rsync |
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> relying on and which fs wouldn't meet the requirements. |
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FAT on an external drive, or some of the online backup systems. |
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> Reg. compression, I believe there's a stackable compressing (fuse) fs |
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> one could use. |
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What is that? I was looking for such a beast a while ago, but could only |
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find read-only filesystems with compression, like squashfs. |
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Don't get me wrong, I like rsync and use it a lot, but, like anything |
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else, it has its limitations. |
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