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From: Flavio Visentin <THe_ZiPMaN@zipman.it>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Support for multi-file raw images
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 22:21:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4464EE39.6000605@zipman.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1147329045.17542.15.camel@moonpix.desrt.ca>

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Ryan Lortie wrote:
> I use rsync to backup my home directory.  The act of starting up QEMU
> changes a 20GB file on my drive.  This causes 20GB of extra copying next
> time I do backups.

OT for qemu, but if you use *rsync*, then only the changed part of the
file are copied, not all the file. Rsync was written just for this
reason, to avoid copying unneccessary unchanged data.

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Flavio Visentin
GPG Key: http://www.zipman.it/gpgkey.asc

There are only 10 types of people in this world:
those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-12 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-11  6:30 [Qemu-devel] PATCH: Support for multi-file raw images Ryan Lortie
2006-05-12 14:35 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2006-05-12 15:54   ` Ryan Lortie
2006-05-12 16:22   ` andrzej zaborowski
2006-05-12 20:21 ` Flavio Visentin [this message]
2006-05-12 21:45   ` Ryan Lortie

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