what is the advantage of using rsync over sftp

Tapas Mishra mightydreams at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 10:16:16 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Ahmed Kamal <ahmed.kamal at canonical.com> wrote:
>  I understand you want to do all the same steps, just replace rsync
> with scp ? Well the advantage, is that you will be doing the backups
> regularly, and here rsync shines, because it will only send to the
> remote end the files that have been changed from the last backup! scp
> would just send everything
Ok.

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Tapas




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