You might try using the --progress arguement w/ rsync. That can give you some indication that it's still working and hasn't hung.
-Dan Young -Parkrose School District -Portland, OR Carl Flippin wrote: >That may well be. I'll have another go tonight and let it run overnight. Thanks >for the advice. > >On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 20:50:33 -0500 (EST) >Tom Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Carl Flippin wrote: >> >>>I'm trying to use rsync to mirror an entire FreeBSD 4.5 server. This includes the >>>kernel and quite a few other system level files. As one might expect, rsync hangs >>>when it tries to copy the kernel file. Has anyone had success with this kind of >>>setup? >>> >>Are you REALLY sure it is hung?? I rsync the bulk of the Red Hat site >>every 6 hours. This is also what I used for the initial whack and it >>worked flawlessly. It can look hung but in my experience it is just >>working it's magic. >> >>Also FWIW I also do a partial of kernel.org (the 2.2 and 2.4 tree + people) >>so I am doing kernel updates every night. >> >>here is my command line: >># rsync -avH --partial --delete --delete-excluded --exclude-from=$EXCLUDE_FILE \ >> path_to_source_tree/ destination. >> >>HTH, >> >>-- >>......Tom CLUELESSNESS: There Are No Stupid Questions, But >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] There Are LOTS of Inquisitive Idiots. :-) >> >> >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync >>Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html