[ I accidentally sent this only to Hal, I meant to send it to the list. It seems to be my day for rsync comments. ]
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Hal Vaughan <h...@halblog.com> wrote: > I'm using rsync on "normal" Debian (6.x), on two embedded systems that run > what look like Debian variations (DNS-321 by D-Link and Stora by Netgear) and > on OS X. > > On Debian, whenever I run rsync (rsync --delete -rlptv -e ssh /my/path/ > myname@mybackup:Backup/, if there are no files to transfer, rsync prints a > long list of directories and I get a high enough count for the bytes > transferred that it's well over just the text of the list of directories. > With other systems, I often get something more like this (from the same > command with the same flags): > > [admin@server:~]$ rsync --delete -rlptv -e ssh /ServerShare/data/ > myname@backup:Backup/data/ > Stora version 10.0.x > building file list ... done > > sent 415903 bytes received 20 bytes 12797.63 bytes/sec > total size is 5840010926 speedup is 14041.09 > > I understand the "Stora version 10.0.x" is from the Stora when I essentially > log in via ssh for this backup. I also notice this transfers over 400k bytes > with no data sent to the backup system. Is that all checksums and filenames? > > All these backups are going to the same system, so the difference in whether > I get a simple output or a long listing of directories scanned for backup > files would seem to be due to something on the sending system. > > I use the -v flag whenever in case I need to debug later. > > Any idea why, on Debian, I always get a long directory listing and don't get > it on some other systems? > > It's not a "must fix" but when I'm scanning output files, obviously it's a > LOT easier to verify everything went smoothly if I get a quick and simple > output than if I have to scan a long list of directories. > > It'd be nice to simplify it so I can tell at a glance when things went well. > Any suggestions on what could cause the difference? > > > Thank you! If you have churn of files or directories being added and being deleted, the directory time stamps have changed and rsync *will* show them. Do you care about mirroring that information? Also, you're ignoring hard links. Use "-H" to send those, although hard links for identical contents set on the target and not hardlinked on the client will not be broken or unlinked by rsync. Just saying. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caocn9ryh64fm48i_wkyl5nwt3fbhptplnj1vq12jodysyek...@mail.gmail.com