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On 03-Apr-2003, Brian Henning wrote message "rdist vs rsync"
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> 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.
> 

rdist can be run through ssh, which is useful.  (i have no clue if rsync can or
can't)

Here's my little wrapper:

bin/sdist:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/rdist6 -P /usr/bin/ssh \
        -p /usr/local/bin/rdistd \
        $@

rdistd is the path to rdistd on the remote box.

~~ 
Andy Harrison
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