One-step tarring/scp (was Re: [ale] hardware to back up a Dell laptop)

[Jim Popovitch]

On Jan 9, 2008 6:00 PM, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:40 -0500, Derek Carter wrote:
> >
> > or
> >
> > rsync -r -C localdir user at remote:dir
>
> Or better:
>
> rsync -e ssh -r -C localdir user at remote:dir


Redundant!!! :-)  rsync will favor using ssh these days, no -e ...
necessary. ;-)

But an rsync on the initial transfer is actually SLOWER than a plain
> tarball transfer. Each 1k block is checked and found to be missing and
> then transferred, repeat ad nauseum.
>

Ahhh, but rsync *can* pickup where it left off, whereas tar+ssh becomes a
pain when there is a network blip after 80GB have transfered and only 2GB
remain. ;-)

-Jim P.
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