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2005 Sep 11
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Possibility of merging rsync and tar
...ays "do you already have a file
at path X that has the same checksum as mine?" the archive sink will say
"umm...give me the whole file, please" while the filesystem sink might
say "yes, I do". Actually, an archive sink whose options dictate that
it send the archive to _standard_output_ will always behave in this
fashion, but an archive sink that has an old archive to consult might be
able to optimize away much of the transmission. One could even
synchronize changes between two archive files on different machines,
possibly translating permissions or other attributes in the proces...