Re: Using rsync to generate diff/patches

2005-01-26 Thread Dave Whitinger
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 12:18 PM, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > It's doable, but not trivial. It involves a more "complete" dry-run > implementation. It's probably a nice project for someone getting into > hacking on rsync. If I had more time for rsync hacking, this is > probably the functionality I'd

Re: Using rsync to generate diff/patches

2005-01-26 Thread Dave Whitinger
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 11:50 AM, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > Look at "batch mode." Except it actually applys changes, too. Thank you, Chris! That's excellent that most of the code is already written. All that is needed now is something like "dry-run", that will tell it not to apply the changes, but

Using rsync to generate diff/patches

2005-01-26 Thread Dave Whitinger
I've been using rsync to remotely backup my MySQL databases (totalling over 3 gigabytes) and it works nice and fast. Now I'm trying to setup my system to save yesterday's backup before applying today's backup, but it's not really feasible to keep a 3gig backup for each day, and I'd rather just sto