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rsync 2.3.1 installed in sipb locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Thu Jul 29 05:26:03 1999
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 05:25:41 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
I've installed rsync 2.3.1 in the the sipb locker; it's
available for Solaris 2.6, Irix 6.5, both libc5 and libc6 Linux systems,
NetBSD, and, I'm ashamed to admit, Ultrix.
rsync bills itself as a faster and more flexible replacement for
rcp, optimized for transfers where the destination file already exists,
and is only being brought in sync with a remote copy. From the
documentation:
The rsync remote-update protocol allows rsync to transfer
just the differences between two sets of files across the
network link, using an efficient checksum-search algorithm.
This makes it especially useful for setting up mirrors of popular web
and ftp sites.
Good documentation exists for rsync and its many options in the form of
a man page; to read it, type:
add sipb
man rsync
Further information on rsync can be found at http://rsync.samba.org/.
Questions, comments, and bug-reports should be directed to
bug-sipb@mit.edu.
Garry
