[Gllug] Verifying rsync copy

[Alain Williams]

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.

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