[Zope-dev] simple revision control(?) for Data.fs.

Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:21:10 -0600


Pavlos Christoforou <pavlos@gaaros.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Evan Gibson wrote:
> 
> > How well does it handle the differences between packed and unpacked data.fs
> > files?
> 
> rsync was designed to update two files efficiently over a slow connection.
> It will split a file into pieces, calculate running checksums and update
> only the parts that differ. I expect that if the files are very different
> (as it would be the case after a pack operation) rsync would not be very
> efficient. And now I am thinking about it, it probably won't do what
> Anthony wants. I don't remember if it has an option to store/get just the
> differences. It would be useful to use as a Data.fs backup
> mechanism over a network.

Jeff Rush has a HowTo on using rsync to backup Zope:

  http://www.zope.org/Members/jrush/howto_rsync_zope

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