you will find the documentation embedded near the end. If you installed
DejaVu, look in /usr/local/bin for psync. I think the help even gives
a command for copying an entire volume.
Let us know how it turns out...
Jerry On May 2, 2004, at 9:50 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
Jerry,
On May 1, 2004, at 2:58 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:
You might try one more time, the first time takes the longest, subsequent invocations
just looks at differences...
I can't think of any reason why the program is chewing cpu after the task is finished.
It works by calling psync ( a perl program to do the copying and adjusting permissions).
If DejaVu calls psync to do the work, then why do I need DejaVu. Why can't I just put the psync command in cron?
I believe that while it is running it might put a menu in the menu bar (on the right
hand side), you might try looking there...
It puts a horseshoe shaped logo up by the battery level indicator. But all it says is "backup in progess" no indication of how much it has done or what remains.
Joe.
I seems like I recall a program "RsyncX" that is put out by a consortium of educational
users, you might take a look at that.
Jerry
On May 1, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
Greetings,
Taking Jerry's recommendation, I downloaded DejaVu and ran it last night. It started about 10pm and at 12:30pm it was still running and I went to bed, (my energy savings preferences were set to dvd playback). I couldn't see any progress bar, although it said it had one. When I awoke this morning it was finished. However, now it is still using 94% of my cpu time and I don't know what it could be doing, preference panel says it is disabled.
Also, I was looking at the files it wrote, and though they are all there, the file sizes are different.
This is the original:
[Abba:~/Desktop] josephal% ls -la
total 256
drwx------ 12 josephal staff 408 30 Apr 22:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 37 josephal staff 1258 29 Apr 10:42 ..
-rwx------ 1 josephal staff 21508 30 Apr 22:10 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r-- 1 josephal staff 0 2 Oct 2002 .localized
drwxr-xr-x 7 josephal staff 238 30 Apr 22:10 DejaVu
drwxr-xr-x 334 josephal staff 11356 30 Apr 22:10 bankers box
drwxr-xr-x 130 josephal staff 4420 29 Apr 11:44 charts
drwxrwxrwx 142 josephal staff 4828 1 Mar 15:09 contact letters
-rw-r--r-- 1 josephal staff 102557 27 Apr 15:25 google.pdf
drwxr-xr-x 4080 josephal staff 138720 29 Apr 10:44 historical_data
drwxr-xr-x 123 josephal staff 4182 29 Apr 10:46 reports
drwxr-xr-x 30 josephal staff 1020 12 Mar 17:30 trifold brochure
[Abba:~/Desktop] josephal%
This is the copy:
[Abba:Users/josephalotta/Desktop] josephal% ls -la
total 208
drwx------ 11 josephal unknown 374 30 Apr 22:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 36 josephal unknown 1224 29 Apr 10:42 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 josephal unknown 0 2 Oct 2002 .localized
drwxr-xr-x 6 josephal unknown 204 30 Apr 22:10 DejaVu
drwxr-xr-x 333 josephal unknown 11322 30 Apr 22:10 bankers box
drwxr-xr-x 129 josephal unknown 4386 29 Apr 11:44 charts
drwxrwxrwx 141 josephal unknown 4794 1 Mar 15:09 contact letters
-rw-r--r-- 1 josephal unknown 102557 27 Apr 15:25 google.pdf
drwxr-xr-x 4079 josephal unknown 138686 29 Apr 10:44 historical_data
drwxr-xr-x 122 josephal unknown 4148 29 Apr 10:46 reports
drwxr-xr-x 29 josephal unknown 986 12 Mar 17:30 trifold brochure
[Abba:Users/josephalotta/Desktop] josephal%
So, I guess I need to reboot to get my CPU time back. What do you think? Is DejaVu a tested product or is it alpha/beta? Seems it has four strikes against it: 1. Slow, 2. No progress Bar, 3. File sizes, 4. high CPU usage while doing nothing. Also, I do not like the fact it is a preference panel as I can't kill it, in times like this.
Joe.
