rdist vs rsync

[Scott Mitchell]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:29:09PM -0500, Andy Harrison wrote:
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> On 03-Apr-2003, Brian Henning wrote message "rdist vs rsync"
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> > Greetings,
> >  what are the major differences between rdist and rsync? is one of them
> > better to use?  I have a directory that i am backing up with a crontab
> > and the backup dir is on the same machine.
> > 

Sorry, missed the original message.  Anyway, the big difference between
rdist and rsync is the incredibly cunning synchronisation algorithm used by
rsync.  Essentially, it just sends diffs, when it can, rather than whole
files, and pipelines transfers so it works efficiently even on high-latency
links.  As far as I know, rdist always sends whole files.

IMHO, if you have a choice, use rsync.

Cheers,

	Scott

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