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 1LglEO-0001X8-UM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:33:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92EE8E0103; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.179]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB54E0103 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b25so1020137elf.1 for ; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:33:43 -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=TpjsdevZEe1p4KQs3/u2OyalPOhSJDB1S98gNjfCs/4=; b=rETrqZ+z24MByFK+k388suUJbPtJLeEjiR7FkN/Tp85xZcHxaDAvvvnEmnP459K9iz jBOjZ8CpY6ecGDmnqV4q8ysN2qUFSaHlLDKxD9wnHbO0zpMlR7WoXv7DF7e9soD29OTh QBJwtsmvDjq5P4L2l6gIxzwt1bsApzWuHDsWA= 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=ViD4SdxcSpj7PbULL3TBATJoUL6X5MVceUaCejTyBAh0L816sDXXl7+v//Fx+R0nL4 f9fJS/D21NoONS9eqV5KBh2Q0LPyhccaP7JxHhlWdg1Zu2WWgF4hw0NgaBYBg6WRf5As /7XDDIZwzijg0ojLoUk77cl/YWNnhrYMin68s= Received: by 10.220.76.3 with SMTP id a3mr2054421vck.119.1236627222600; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:33:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gentoo-everex.local (cpe-72-185-51-230.tampabay.res.rr.com [72.185.51.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 34sm325420yxl.35.2009.03.09.12.33.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:33:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49B56F06.2020101@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:33:26 -0400 From: Saphirus Sage User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20081231) 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> <49B56AAA.7040205@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49B56AAA.7040205@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 91d39b2d-346f-4bc9-8332-5de019c65cd3 X-Archives-Hash: b509beebb66bf8d874e1015e047335e7 Hung Dang wrote: > 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 >> "Network block device". Unlike NFS, the server just exports the block >> device, 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 > But rar is a proprietary archival format, I'd much sooner go with a tar, compressed with bzip2 or lzma. If the biggest concern is just getting it done quickly, gzip it, but for the love of all things free, not rar, I sa= y!