From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lgkxt-0006sU-1h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:16:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8A7CE045A; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:16:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.251]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FE05E045A for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:16:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id f25so1909544rvb.46 for ; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:16:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qWnMGwHmTQjqjFOYMeezpc+W0/CipI+EyNahQhLvZG8=; b=XWuY/fcdKRDoJyuHwNDtP6eNkM+kI9hHrmYA74C8RSuTGd+y/8n8MeIEf5RwGr231w qDG3anPwMp8CYNbP08do+SSjMWIHrvaQaEx8D0BzEAHsU6R5+RbvZ3usd07bnQvkvoUW g84iLZFd01WHaD/rpHrvGrHkSvMmf0Q6XvMUs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kBn1WQ5q81TQRjxzOci1EPvEsJCKjuFbQFTs/s3YzhBEET9rJJLAqqboDLCipLVqIc /A5R2Evkv13Jjqvyhs6uTYPxzuZP3EEitA0XUrDgNQfBWej+sIeImO99VAX73WGSMsO2 mOkKM2MpY00zVzfxjE3GubNE/ppweDTfWMvvk= Received: by 10.115.32.18 with SMTP id k18mr3704387waj.98.1236626199218; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:16:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.100? (mu.nmsu.edu [128.123.84.155]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g14sm6863315rvb.0.2009.03.09.12.16.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:16:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49B56AAA.7040205@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:14:50 +0000 From: Hung Dang User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090303) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rsync + tar + bz2 ? References: <49bf44f10903070804h585ffd1agdd88f75bb4c9310@mail.gmail.com> <200903091803.38477.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> In-Reply-To: <200903091803.38477.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 49657e4c-4574-4b1e-a6f4-555457f0db6f X-Archives-Hash: 896901a6c28590b3c7ed38d144cd6129 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Samstag, 7. M=E4rz 2009 17:04:17 schrieb Grant: > =20 >> I'm backing up numerous large files on another machine on my local >> network. I've only been using rsync, but it occured to me that I >> might be able to save some time and space if I incorporate tar and >> bzip2. How will rsync interact with those? If I turn the whole >> backup into a big tar.bz2, would rsync need to redownload the whole >> thing if I change one file? If so, maybe I should turn different >> groups of files into tar.bz2 archives so rsync only needs to >> redownload an archive if one of its files has changed? >> =20 > > Another way, although a bit more work to setup, whould be to use a "Net= work=20 > block device". Unlike NFS, the server just exports the block device,=20 > everything else (mkfs, encryption) can be done on the client. > > Bye... > > Dirk > =20 rsync will download only if source and destination files are different. From my experiences using rar is faster and save more space than bz2. Hung