hard disk activity

[Martin P. Hellwig]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> "VSmirk" <vania.smirk at gmail.com> writes:
>> I am needing to synchronize the file on a remote folder, and my current
>> solution, which simply copies the file if a date comparison or a
>> content comparison, becomes a bit unmanageable for very large files.
>> Some of the files I'm working with are hundreds of MB in size, or
>> larger.
> 
> Why don't you look at the rsync program:
> 
>   http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
> 
> but for that much data, just plopping it all in a huge file is not
> a great approach if you can help it.  Maybe you can use a database instead.

Perhaps a cvs developer could also give some insight, you could check 
subversion's mailinglist (check their website for more info:
http://subversion.tigris.org/)

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