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