what is the advantage of using rsync over sftp

[Jorge Armando Medina]

On 09/29/2010 05:06 AM, Ahmed Kamal 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

With rsync you can also "resume" a copy, scp can't.
>
> On 09/29/2010 12:48 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
>> What is the advantage of using rsync over scp or sftp?
>> On same list I have put up a problem of taking backup of an LVM.
>> Which I mentioned here
>> http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?26,135008,135251#msg-135251
>> I used rsync but I am not clear with what is the advantage of doing
>> all this hard work.
>> What I saw was a snapshot lvm was created which was mounted some where
>> and  I copied
>> complete directory structure to some remote location.
>> What is the advantage of all this hard work can simple scp or sftp not
>> do the same thing?
>>
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