Re: off-topic: cool rsync tricks [was Re: Migrating /home from too small /dev/hda partition]

On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 13:41, Tony Godshall wrote:
> According to Vance Lankhaar,
> > Like I just said in a previous email, try rsync. It does all that fun
> > stuff too :)
> 
> A beautiful trick I got from the book "Linux Server Hacks"
> is to make differential backups with rsync that look like
> full trees but don't take any extra space.

I like the trick, but I've never used it because it fouls the "what if I
got hit by a bus" rule... it'd be ugly for someone new coming onto the
system to figure out what was going on, and disk space is relatively
cheap.

Still, one of these days...
-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...