Re: ssh, remote host support?

[Shachar S. <sh...@sh...>]

Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>
> Oooh, I didn't know about the filter thing; that's really cool.
>
> One important point to bear in mind, though: in that case, you'll
> end up re-encrypting every file every time, since rsync wants the
> whole file available to run the rsync algorithm with.  If you simply
> keep an encrypted copy lying around, rsyncrypto can update changed
> files only.
>
> -Robin
>
>   

I believe that if the file's date has not change, rsync can be persuaded 
to skip it, but I'm not sure as it's not yet relevant.

Also, at least for now, this mode will not encrypt the file names.

Shachar