[Gllug] Verifying rsync copy

[John Winters]

> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:15:54AM +0100, - Tethys wrote:
>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:21 AM, John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > ps. I'm doing some big rsyncs this morning - several gbytes of data at
>> a time.
>>
>> You and me both. ADSL is all well and good, but sometimes, you need
>> more than the paltry upstream bandwidth it provides. At this rate, my
>> rsync should be complete sometime in early June. Why am I reminded of
>> Tannenbaum's station wagon quote at this point? :-)
>
> Why not do the initial copy by burning/posting a DVD (or something),
> then use rsync to keep the copy up to date.

Bit isn't it a bit of a waste to use a station wagon just to carry one DVD?

John

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