[CentOS] Re: rsync and swapping

[Christian Volker]

Yohoo!

>Rsync's main benefit is on backups of changed files. dumping to a new 
>destination every time makes rsync less efficient than just about every
>other 
>option.
>Now if you made the new directory, and hardlinked the old stuff to the new 
>directory, then rsync would shine.

That's what rsnapshot is designed for. It uses rsync to sync the files to a
backup destination and hardlinks any existing file, so you can go back to any
level you like.

Christian