Rsync - Notes

My notes on rsync
To be transformed to proper doc

* Listens on the default TCP Port - 873
* rsync client executable to be installed on both local and remote servers
* Some interesting features
** Diffs
** Compression
** SSH / RSH
** Support for copying links, devices, owners, groups and permissions
** preserving file time stamps
** pipelining file transfers to minimize latency
* A utility called rdiff uses the rsync algorithm to generate delta files with the difference from file A to file B

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External Links
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync
* http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/documentation.html
* http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync.html
* http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsyncd.conf.html
* http://www.fredshack.com/docs/rsync.html
* http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/