rdist vs rsync
Andy Harrison
ah54 at httpsite.com
Thu Apr 3 12:29:11 PST 2003
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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.
>
rdist can be run through ssh, which is useful. (i have no clue if rsync can or
can't)
Here's my little wrapper:
bin/sdist:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/rdist6 -P /usr/bin/ssh \
-p /usr/local/bin/rdistd \
$@
rdistd is the path to rdistd on the remote box.
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Andy Harrison
ah##@httpsite.com
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