collecting the differences between a local host and remote archive to third local location (a usb device)
Kevin Korb
kmk at sanitarium.net
Thu Sep 27 10:40:46 MDT 2012
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I have never actually used it personally but --only-write-batch can do
that.
On 09/27/12 03:33, Benjamin Ward wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying to archive to a remote host but the size of the data to
> copy is prohibitively large to consider doing the sync over the
> wire (it's TBs of raw video), so i was wondering if it was possible
> to use a usb attached storage device as the transport medium.
>
> Is it possible for rsync to compare the two systems (over the
> network) finding any newer or different files on the local system
> as compared to the remote archive (ignoring local deletes), then
> copy only those new/differences to a locally attached portable
> drive so that the portable drive can be physically taken across
> town to the other system, plugged in and then the new data be
> ingested so that a subsequent rsync between the the two systems
> would see those files as synchronised?
>
> I thought the --compare-dest option might be the way to go, as per
> this post:
>
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2006-June/015827.html
>
> but it seems to not behave the way i thought it would.
>
> Thanks in advance, and apologies if I'm asking a bleeding obvious
> question. :)
>
> Kind regards, Ben
>
>
>
>
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