Synchronise trees

[Wayne Davison]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 06:07:57PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> Another possibility is --link-dest to build a new tree in parallel.
> That's what we do for a local Debian mirror.

This is the approach taken by the "atomic-rsync" script in the "support"
subdir in the source.  It uses --link-dest for an efficient update, but
it only support pulling files, not pushing them:

    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/rsync/support/atomic-rsync

..wayne..