Truly awful rsync docs - Re: real Newbie query sorry!

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:13:28AM +0100, Stuart Halliday wrote:
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> 
> Why isn't there a beginners guide to setting up rsync?
> 
> 
> The rsync front page talks of a tutorial by devshed at:
> http://www.devshed.com/c/b/Administration#/Rsync/page1.html
> 
> Except there isn't one....
> 
> It's now: 
> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/File-Synchronization-With-Rsync/

Stuart's observation is still true.  Who maintains the rsync web site?

> 
> Quite why the official main rsync site would rely on an external 3rd party web site to have their tutorial is not good. External web sites come and go....
> 
> It looks like rsync docs were written by a seasoned user years ago in a plain text file and this text file was dumped as a 'HTML file' with no attempt to make it web friendly. It appears to have had syntax errors corrected over a number of years with no attempt made to make it beginner friendly.
> 
> After looking through devshed's article I see there are TWO rsync web site which look very similar.
> http://www.samba.org/rsync/  and http://rsync.samba.org/
> 
> This just confuses me. ;-)

Well, I think they're just the same pages, but maybe a redirect would be
better.

-chris

> 
> If I ever get rsync working, I'll have to write a better manual. :-)
> 
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