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

Mike Harrison meuon at geeklabs.com
Wed Jan 9 20:16:58 EST 2008


> 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.


I've not tried the tar method..(but will)
but rsyncs are incredibly fast the nth time,




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