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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronizing my music collection
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:24:59
Message-Id: 49bf44f10808130824j6979epe87c26716cfbd139@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronizing my music collection by "Sebastian Günther"
1 >> Man, rsync is easy to use. I imagined something else.
2 >
3 > Try Bakula with a robotarm tape changer to keep the two things in
4 > sync... ;-)
5 >
6 >> Would rsnapshot be useful in this case?
7 >
8 > Defacto rsnapshot is just an elaborate wrapper around rsync...
9 >
10 >> What are the advantages of using a daemon instead of remote-shell?
11 >
12 > What daemon? Did I miss something? Be kind: rewind...
13
14 According to man rsync:
15
16 "There are two different ways for rsync to contact a remote system:
17 using a remote-shell program as the transport (such as ssh or rsh) or
18 contacting an rsync daemon directly via TCP."
19
20 I'm using remote-shell and I'm wondering what benefit the daemon has.
21 I probably wouldn't have to enter the username/password?
22
23 - Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronizing my music collection Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>