"Simply Amazing" and "Head Slappers"

[Python]

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 19:01 -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> On 3/22/07, Python <python at venix.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yes.  But if it is like dirvish, one changed record means a whole new
> > mysql.sql in the daily snapshot directory.  rdiff would presumably store
> > a delta saving space and allowing finer grained recovery points within a
> > given disk quota.
> >
> 
> I haven't looked at rdiff since 1998, but back then, I inherited a
> system that was using rdiff to replicate a development environment
> hosted in Mountain View to a remote office in Marlboro every night,
> and rdiff was taking about 20 hours to complete the job.
> 
> Somebody told me about rsync when we were at the Cambridge
> Brewery after a BLU meeting, and I gave it a try the next day. I
> found that rsync completed the same job in less than two hours.
> 
> Has rdiff really changed that much over the years? Or is it a whole
> new protocol that just reused an old name?

It looks like a different project using the old name.  The web site says
it uses librsync, so the performance should be comparable to what you
are used to.

-- 
Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp