From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 3 11:16:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF0737B404 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:16:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (oe61.law12.hotmail.com [64.4.18.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C081743FBF for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:16:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from b1henning@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:16:21 -0800 Received: from 192.216.212.193 by oe61.law12.hotmail.com with DAV; Thu, 03 Apr 2003 19:16:21 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [192.216.212.193] X-Originating-Email: [b1henning@hotmail.com] From: "Brian Henning" To: "freebsd" Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:12:51 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Apr 2003 19:16:21.0608 (UTC) FILETIME=[82D57680:01C2FA15] Subject: rdist vs rsync X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 19:16:23 -0000 Greetings, what are the major differences between rdist and rsync? is one of them better to use? I have a directory that i am backing up with a crontab and the backup dir is on the same machine. thanks, brian