Re: [Hampshire] Re: Backup solutions for Ubuntu

Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:54:29PM +0000, Jon Wilks wrote:
>> May I recommend dirvish? http://www.dirvish.org
>
> Also there is rsnapshot which is similar. Either one is probably
[...]
> - even given two files of identical content, rsync will not consider
> them identical if metadata (times, ownership, permissions, etc.)
> differs. You do find yourself collecting many copies of such
> files.

I think rsync has a 'size' option which uses size only to determine state.
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alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391