Using rsync to keep system binaries up to date (LONG)

2000-11-16 Thread Rob Meffan
Hi all. I'm working on devising a system to keep my RH Linux servers up to date in all aspects. I have a decent system set up using rsync which keeps master copies of config files in different hierarchical directory trees based on common files, role-based files, and host-specific files. It works

Re: between rsync, cvs and rdiff

2000-11-16 Thread Nicolas Williams
See PRCS version 2, by Josh MacDonald. It does all that you seem to be asking for (project version control, binary diff algorythm based on RSYNC, disconnected ditributed repositories, etc...). One of the white papers even describes how PRCS version 2 can be used to synchronize laptop data with the

between rsync, cvs and rdiff

2000-11-16 Thread Jeff Mandel
A recent message on the list about rsyncing vmware images to a file server reminded me of a different issue. With a Network Appliance file server, you can make time stamps of your file system and recover files that were deleted. It seems like it would be possible to do this kind of thing with rs

Re: rdiff - does it exist?

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:09:07PM -0500, Rob Russell wrote: > > At the Ottawa Linux Symposium, I heard talk of a proof-of-concept version > of diff rewritten to use the rsync algorithms to produce diffs across a > network. Does such a beast still/actually exist? > > Background: > > I'm puttin