[plug] Monitoring dd

[William Kenworthy]

Go for rsync - unison cant hack a lot of data (runs out of memory)  I
rsync a 9g laptop partition for backup, unison did the first copy, but
fails after that in tryng to find changes.  rsync is also orders of
magnitude faster on something like this.

BillK

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 23:09, Craig Foster wrote:
> Try a local rsync or derivitives
> (http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=rsync&section=projects) or even
> something like unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/). Both
> do incremental copies and some error checking, with rsync matching
> internal md5sums to make sure the copy is OK. They both will also work
> over a network, with rsync having it's own permissions system if you
> want :)
> 
> IMHO rsync is pretty much 'it' for large disk to disk backups where
> accuracy rules