./net/rsync, Network file distribution/synchronisation utility

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Branch: pkgsrc-2008Q2, Version: 3.0.2, Package name: rsync-3.0.2, Maintainer: tron

rsync is a replacement for rcp that has many more features.

rsync uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for
bringing remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the
differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both
sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand.
This makes rsync a good remote file distribution/synchronisation utility
in a dialup PPP/SLIP environment.

Note: it requires rsync on the destination machine.

There is a Computer Science Technical Report on the rsync algorithm
included in the distribution, and is also available as
ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/rsync/tech_report.ps

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SHA1: 0d1e69c28ee57a6cca6b9a52b18c7fb835ca7a2e
RMD160: 8f7872e20ea3e243bf0c44c02a583d579e1a0d19
Filesize: 747.785 KB

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