Hi,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/09/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Goodwin</b> <<a href="mailto:dof@codepoets.co.uk">dof@codepoets.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>You may find tar to be simpler/easier in this instance e.g.<br><br>sudo tar -zcf - /home | ssh user@remote_host "cat > backup.tar.gz"</blockquote><div><br>I thought of using tar, but wasn't sure if it would keep symlinks, file
<br>ownerships, hidden files etc. intact.<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Rsync is really only of any use if there are existing files for it to do
<br>comparison(s) with; for a one off job, tar will most likely be more<br>efficient.</blockquote><div><br>I thought rsync wasn't the right tool for the job, but I didn't know of a better<br>one! Time to do some more reading, methinks.
<br> </div></div>thanks for the help.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Glenn.<br>