On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 09:47 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On 8/23/07, Ming Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this one looks interesting! fire a flame here, which one is better, > > unison or rsync, for daily backup purpose? > > Fundamentally, rsync does stateless one-way copying and Unison does > stateful two-way synchronization. Backup is one-way, so rsync is more > appropriate for almost all backup tasks. However, in your case where > there are so many files that you can't afford to send the entire file > list with every backup, Unison does what you need.
so the stateless is one pros&cons here. performance wise, does rsync and unison has fundamentally different? because i saw unison document also mention delta detection algorithm like rsync. thx. > > Matt -- Ming Zhang @#$%^ purging memory... (*!% http://blackmagic02881.wordpress.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/blackmagic02881 -------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
