From: Matthew Margolis <mrmargolis@...>
Date: 2005-08-08T22:37:17+09:00
Subject: Re: sending an email with an attachment in ruby

dave wrote:

>Why don't you use tar over ssh or rsync? 
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I am not quite sure what you are saying here.  I am already using tar 
via a system call in my ruby script.  I don't have a local box that I 
can just download the file to as I want to automate the process and I 
have a laptop that is not always on.  From what I understand rsync 
doesn't do incremental backups and this is what I need, a tared file 
representing the state of the site every week.  And no I can't use 
subversion as the client doesn't want restoring the backup to be 
dependent on the host at all.

-Matthew Margolis