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Contents 1 Question About Rsync.net 2 Removed content copied from website 3 Tutorial link 4 On Portal:Free software, rsync is currently the selected article 5 rsync != librsync? 6 OS

[edit] Question About Rsync.net

Should this website (http://www.rsync.net/) be referenced in anyway to this article? 76.81.25.214 08:40, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Is the website related to rsync? It doesn't seem to be, apart from the name. So I would say "no". Thue | talk 18:15, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed content copied from website

The command line options that were just reverted were copied directly from http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=r/rsync - should someone keep an eye on that IP address to check they don't do the same thing again? --Tango 18:42, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tutorial link

The tutorial linked is "Last updated on November 20th, 1999", in other words ancient. There must exist a better one?

The External Link "Tutorial: Backing up files with rsync" http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/09/15/1931240 is redirected to a page with ad-only content. There is no tutorial there. Should it be removed?

It is removed now [1] --Unixguy 12:57, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] On Portal:Free software, rsync is currently the selected article

(2007-04-18) Just to let you know. The purpose of selecting an article is both to point readers to the article and to highlight it to potential contributors. It will remain on the portal for a week or so. The previous selected article was WorldWideWeb. Gronky 11:32, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

The selected article box has been updated again, rsync has been superceded by TeX. Gronky 14:19, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] rsync != librsync?

(2007-08-28) Looking at http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ and http://librsync.sourceforge.net/ suggests that rsync and librsync contain two different implementations of a similar algorithm, with rdiff and rdiff-backup (mentioned in the article) using the latter. If this is the case then should the article should distinguish more between the algorithm, its various implementations and software that uses it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Edmundgreen (talk • contribs) 14:48, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

Yes :). Thue | talk 17:04, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] OS

"rsync is a software application for Unix systems" but "OS: Cross-platform", is that correct? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.239.63.225 (talk) 14:45, 7 December 2007 (UTC)