Evan Gibson wrote On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:31:15AM -0500, Pavlos Christoforou wrote: Hi Anthony - I read a posting once where someone suggested using rsync to do something similar. Rsync just transmits the changes between versions and has (the newer version) support for network access.
How well does it handle the differences between packed and unpacked data.fs files?
more to the point: will it allow me to say 'give me the data.fs file as it was at 2000/01/05, 5am'[*] ? The code I've just about finished will do this, and it also only stores deltas between files (unless the md5 changes, or the file shrinks, in which case it writes a full file). I also plan to support gzipping the data files in the repository. Once this is done, I'll be running it 12-hourly here to allow us some recovery to any cases of screwups. Anthony [*] well, 'the last backup before this date'.