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On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:12:39AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> If you're willing to use BK just as a transport, it's a far more efficient
> transport.  Ask people who have run rsync/ftp/bk all on the same system,
> the BK way gets the same information across in less bits.

If it gets the information across.  So far I haven't found any feature
in BK to allow restarting a pull or clone once it is interrupted.
For that reason I use rsync to get a large BK repo to my home machines,
which often is temporarily disconnected from the ISP.

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