> Am Samstag, 7. März 2009 17:04:17 schrieb Grant:
> > 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?
>
> By using either rsh or ssh, tar can backup over the net, too.
OTOH, I think rsync is still the better solution, because even for large files,