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I've got two partition images (A and B) and want to use them to create a patch that I can apply on A on another computer in order to get the new B image without flooding the network. I have the following requirements:

  • works on linuxLinux
  • can create diffs
  • can use diffs to patch files
  • can handle binary files
  • can handle large files (a few hundred GB should work)
  • no user interaction required (just a console application)
  • ideally, should be able to read from/write to pipes (so that I can pipe into it from a gzip-compressed file and write to one)

Does something like that exist?

I've got two partition images (A and B) and want to use them to create a patch that I can apply on A on another computer in order to get the new B image without flooding the network. I have the following requirements:

  • works on linux
  • can create diffs
  • can use diffs to patch files
  • can handle binary files
  • can handle large files (a few hundred GB should work)
  • no user interaction required (just a console application)
  • ideally, should be able to read from/write to pipes (so that I can pipe into it from a gzip-compressed file and write to one)

Does something like that exist?

I've got two partition images (A and B) and want to use them to create a patch that I can apply on A on another computer in order to get the new B image without flooding the network. I have the following requirements:

  • works on Linux
  • can create diffs
  • can use diffs to patch files
  • can handle binary files
  • can handle large files (a few hundred GB should work)
  • no user interaction required (just a console application)
  • ideally, should be able to read from/write to pipes (so that I can pipe into it from a gzip-compressed file and write to one)

Does something like that exist?

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Binary diff/patch for large files on linux?

I've got two partition images (A and B) and want to use them to create a patch that I can apply on A on another computer in order to get the new B image without flooding the network. I have the following requirements:

  • works on linux
  • can create diffs
  • can use diffs to patch files
  • can handle binary files
  • can handle large files (a few hundred GB should work)
  • no user interaction required (just a console application)
  • ideally, should be able to read from/write to pipes (so that I can pipe into it from a gzip-compressed file and write to one)

Does something like that exist?