Re: [Nolug] Looking for an automated FTP backup script for mysqldump

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 10:44, Scott Harney wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
> > 2 slightly (well, a bit more than slightly, but not much) different
> > files may have big differences in their respective .gz files, because
> > of the compression algorithm, which plays havoc with the rsync
> > algorithm.
> >
> > I think it was here, though, that I heard of rgzip, which, as it's
> > name (slightly) implies, is an rsync-safe version of gzip.
> >
> > A web-page that I recently read regarding why apt doesn't work
> > with rsync explains it all.
>
> Here's a link I found on google referring to this issue.
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200307/msg00462.html
>
> Debian apparently is starting to ship a patched version of gzip that adds a
> --rsync option to it. The other option would be not to gzip ;)

Yes, I see it in gzip 1.3.5
$ gzip -h
gzip 1.3.5
(2002-09-30)
usage: gzip [-cdfhlLnNrtvV19] [-S suffix] [file ...]
[snip]
    --rsyncable Make rsync-friendly archive
[snip]

If I'm on a LAN, however, I'd still rather send over a whole file
each period, so that, if necessary, I could go back to an earlier
version.

-- 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Ron Johnson, Jr.        Home: ron.l.johnson@cox.net             |
| Jefferson, LA  USA                                              |
|                                                                 |
| "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian  |
|  because I hate vegetables!"                                    |
|    unknown                                                      |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
___________________
Nolug mailing list
nolug@nolug.org