rsync huge tar files

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:35:51AM -0700, Tim Conway wrote:
> If it is, as you say, uncompressed, rsync will work on it as-is, finding 
> and sending the changes.

That was exactly my first thought, but I think he was meaning to say
that the file's contents were 2GB when uncompressed, not that the file
itself was not compressed.  At least, that's the only way his email
makes sense to me.
-chris

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> Tim Conway
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> Harald Dunkel <harald at CoWare.com> 
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> rsync huge tar files
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> Hi folks,
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> Are there any tricks known to let rsync operate on huge tar
> files?
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> I've got a local tar file (e.g. 2GByte uncompressed) that is
> rebuilt each night (with just some tiny changes, of course),
> and I would like to update the remote copies of this file
> without extracting the tar files into temporary directories.
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> Any ideas?
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> Regards
> 
> Harri
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