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Am Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: |
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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 |
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> > > preserve 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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Yeah, FAT was the only one I could imagine, just wanted to be sure. So |
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nothing to worry about ;-) It would never come to my mind to backup a |
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_UNIX_ fs to a _DOS_, ahem, fs. |
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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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http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/CompressedFileSystems |
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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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The first one can be solved with fuse, the second one is a not an issue (at |
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least for me). |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |
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