Slackware-9.0/9.1 base. I've come across a problem.
A source file of 3.0G and a destination existing image of 5.1G - the destination has a lot of stuff which is to be discarded but does contain all of the data in the source except for about 50M. This should have been a quick transfer, even though I'm doing it over a slow link with a bwlimit=10 - especially with -z for gzipping the delta data too. ie. rsync -avzP --bwlimit=10 sourcefile.tar machine: It started off well, immediatly reconciling 30M at the destination in seconds. It then slowed down and started just transferring raw data. 8 hours later I came back and it was still only on 10% - about 350M. I say raw data, but the speed indicator was sometimes moving up from the base of 10k/s to 15-30k/s and back down. I stopped it, put the nearest-to-hand old rsync back on the source machine (2.5.6). (restored the destination image to its original 5.1G). Started it again. Same problem. Put 2.5.6 on the destination machine too; it took longer to do the inital block processing - as expected going by the ChangeLog - but it then started going properly and is already on 7% and I'm happy it has just hit the 50M of uncommon data. Anyone else seen similar problems with 2.6.2 ? PS. I thought I would love the new current-rate-of-transfer to the old way of the average rate over the whole file, but I don't actually - I prefer the old file avergage rate ! I'd vote for a switch to choose ... -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
