Re: Rsync and Tar

2004-01-19 Thread Steve Sills
I wasn't trying to "reinvent the wheel" I was just trying to see if anyone had done this. Your answer helped, so thankyou, but try not to be so snarkey in the future, most people including myself to look things up before we post on a mailing list. Steve jw schultz wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2004

Re: Rsync and Tar

2004-01-19 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:56:40PM -0700, Steve Sills wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to setup a backup system. What I would like to do is > have rsync create a tar file as it downloads (to save space) and just have > it update that tar file. Can rsync create a archive on the fly,