On Fri 12 Nov 2004, Mark Watts wrote: > > Server D is mirroring Server B. > > We'd like to change Server D to be mirroring Server C instead. > > Previously when I've swapped between servers like this, vast swathes of the > archive are deleted and redownloaded (I use -av --delete-after) for no reason > other than the timestamp being different.
If rsync is used with -a, the timestamps _shouldn't_ be different. > If I use -av -I, will it ignore the timestamps and only go on file size? Yes. > The archive in question is a several hundred GB linux distro archive so I'd > rather not have to redownload it :) Oops... I tried to move a local Debian mirror (with daily snapshots that has unchanged files hardlinked to the previous day) to a larger system. I ran into the problem that the address space was too small for rsync's memory requirements (the process grew to 4GB then crashed on out of memory). I ended up doing each day separately with a --link-dest pointing to the previous day... Only took 5 days :-/ Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html