From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 15:16:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 A874D16A41F for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:16:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net) Received: from fri.itea.ntnu.no (fri.itea.ntnu.no [129.241.7.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9CED43D48 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:16:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fri.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA7297EE2 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:16:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maren.thelosingend.net (maren.math.ntnu.no [129.241.211.48]) by fri.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with SMTP for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:16:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 3614 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Aug 2005 17:16:48 +0200 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Aug 2005 17:16:48 +0200 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:16:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen X-X-Sender: sveinhal@maren.thelosingend.net To: Hornet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20050829171459.M3014@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <20050828234043.H22315@maren.thelosingend.net> <20050829161506.E2522@maren.thelosingend.net> <43131C85.1070100@meijome.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Content-Scanned: with sophos and spamassassin at mailgw.ntnu.no. Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Norberto Meijome Subject: Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:16:50 -0000 * Hornet [2005-08-29 11:11 -0400] > cat /usr/ports/sysutils/rsnapshot/pkg-descr It seems this is just a wrapper around the tools I was already planning on using. In this regard, it's a nice port. But won't this perl-script suffer for tha same shortcommings that rsync will? Or does it use rsync in more clever ways that I do?