README | 8 ++++---- diff --git a/README b/README index 34cd2d88b3d3b6a4e00743a1d21d0fac85b8a1ec..bf9f7032b2be5ad1bbc02052924e5248b1b89249 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ -syncer -- stateful file/device data syncer. +syncer -- Fast stateful file/disk data syncer. DESCRIPTION Main purpose of this utility is fast data synchronizing between two hard drives: one is fast (SSD, SATA HDD), another is connected through slow -USB interface. +USB interface. Task is to lower amounts of data needed to be transferred. This utility is stateful: it keeps precomputed data hashes in separate -statefile and use it to determine if we need to update the data. +statefile and use it to determine if we need to update block of data. # sync from very fast SSD to slow USB connected HDD % ./syncer -src /dev/ada0 -dst /dev/da0 -state state.bin @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ [%%%%%%] # all blocks were transferred to da0 Now we have statefile containing cryptographic hashes of the blocks from -source, copy of all read data in destination. Now if we run it again: +source and copy of all read data in destination. Now if we run it again: % ./syncer -src /dev/ada0 -dst /dev/da0 -state state.bin [....%.]