Hi Jerry,
I used "sudo psync -d / /Volumes/backup" and it worked real nice. I kind of like watching
it work while I do other things. If my powerbook were to sleep in the middle of it, would it break something or would it just pick up where it left off?
Joe.
On May 3, 2004, at 6:54 AM, Jerry LeVan wrote:
I can't think of any reason why not :), If you examine the source to psync
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.
