On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 06:10, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 10:06:52AM -0400, Alberto Accomazzi wrote: > > Chris Shoemaker wrote: [...] > > that the feature is useless, but just caution people that they need to > > understand the assumptions that this use of rsync is based upon. Also, > > I would suggest checking out other diff/patch tools such as rdiff-backup > > or xdelta. > > I looked at theses but didn't see how they could help me in my > situation (same as what you described). Am I missing something?
Perhaps he failed to go low enough :-) rdiff-backup is built on librsync, which has a command line tool rdiff. rdiff has seperate command line options for; generate signature, calculate delta, and apply delta. This allows you build your own batch mode tools. Note that it is only one file at a time; you would have to build your own directory walking tools etc. xdelta does the same thing, except it doesn't use signatures. It is much more like a efficient generic binary diff/patch tool. This makes it unsuitable for some applications, but its deltas are much more efficient. -- Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/ -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
