Re: Rsync signatures and incremental tape backup

2005-02-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 04:01:52PM -0800, Richard Patterson wrote: > Hello, > > Andrew Trigdell's original rsync paper (actually > thesis) discussed the idea of using rsync to make > incremental tape backups based not on whole files but > rather parts of files. Sadly, this functionality is > not a

Rsync signatures and incremental tape backup

2005-02-24 Thread Richard Patterson
Hello, Andrew Trigdell's original rsync paper (actually thesis) discussed the idea of using rsync to make incremental tape backups based not on whole files but rather parts of files. Sadly, this functionality is not actually present in the rsync program. I'd like to explore adding this ability. T