On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:22:06AM -0500, Simon wrote: > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 05:27:48 +0000 (GMT), Peter Hoskin wrote: > >On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:00:41 -0600 (CST) > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: network backup > >> > >> Hi all > >> > >> How can i make a backup of some dirs and send them to another server > >> > >> what is the best tool for doing that? > >> > >> rsync netcat or wich one do you recomend for making a huge backup ? > > > >rsync :) > > > > rsync is nice, but it can't (afaik) compress data being synced on the fly to > save disk space :-( Is there anything out there which works like rsync and > can compress on the fly to space disk space? having 100GB of text files > compressed can save quite a few gigs.
Take a look at the rsync manual page, specifically at the '-z' option :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 The rest of this sentence is written in Thailand, on
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