On Wed, May 14, 2008 12:55 pm, Victor Farah wrote: > Hello there > I have a question about rsync, and some options. > I have 10 servers here that all need data from one machine. It's a > LARGE amount of files all pictures and files and such, now every time I > rsync the directory over it takes like hours to create the file list. > Now I'm fine with that, but I need to know if it can save the file list > it generates and uses it over again for the other machines? > Now my script is pretty basic: > rsync -urvlopg --delete /local/dir rsync://remote1/MODULE > repeat this ten times for remote1 through remote10. I want to speed up > this process by making it so it only gets the file list once and copies > the updates it needs to each machine. Right now when the script runs it > will rsync generate file list, copy the files to the remote and then > finish, go to the next line and do the same thing over again, so it > takes hours to create the file list and hours to copy. I just want it > to create the file list once and copy what it needs to each machine, is > there a way to do this?
rsync is stateless, so AFAIK it doesn't save the state. You can look into unison, which is stateful - it saves the state of each replica between runs. I believe there is a way to get it to act like rsync - one directional transfers. --Yan -- o__ ,>/'_ o__ (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ Yan Seiner (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ Personal Trainer (_)\(_) ,>/'_ o__ Professional Engineer (_)\(_) ,>/'_ Who says engineers have to be pencil necked geeks? (_)\(_) "I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'" --Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html