-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/13/2014 05:05 PM, Perry Smith wrote: > A friend and I noticed the --times or --archive flag. I have not > stopped it yet but I'll add that flag (probably --times). > > This is the first time so it must be #2. > > The side issuing the command is a Mac using rsync version 2.6.9 > protocol version 29. The other side is AIX using rsync version > 3.1.0 protocol version 31 (that I built myself).
Yes, if either end is version 2 then rsync will have to index the entire tree on both systems before it starts copying anything. > I don't mind recompiling rsync on the Mac side if you think that > would improve things. I have no Mac experience but that is the way it is everywhere else. > I was trying to find some type of scratch file or something but > could not. I'm curious, where is the index kept? There is no index kept. Rsync has no memory between runs which is why copying the timestamps is important. When I say indexing files I really mean it is going through the tree and doing a stat() on everything so it will have a list of existing files and timestamps to compare with the other end. Rsync v3 does this too but it does it incrementally while it is also copying stuff. > Thank you for your help Perry > > On Jan 13, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Kevin Korb <k...@sanitarium.net> > wrote: > >> Signed PGP part First, don't run rsync without either --times or >> --archive. Without that rsync won't copy timestamps and it won't >> be able to tell what is changed when you run it again. >> >> Second, if rsync isn't copying anything then there are 2 >> reasons... 1. You already have most of the files copied and it is >> going through them looking for a file that needs updating 2. You >> are using rsync version 2 where all files had to be indexed >> before it copied anything. >> >> On 01/13/2014 03:06 PM, Perry Smith wrote: >>> This is my first time to really use rsync. I did small tests >>> to get the arguments like I wanted and then kicked off the big >>> rsync about 2 and a half hours ago. So far, it has not copied >>> over any files. >>> >>> The command I used is: >>> >>> rsync \ --relative \ --recursive \ --copy-links \ >>> host:/glob/that/matches/about/eighty/./directories \ >>> /local/target/dir >>> >>> The list of directories are all full of symbolic links that >>> point off to NFS mounted file systems. I don't expect it to >>> complete today but I do have to stop it each day at the end of >>> the work day. But it worries me that it has yet to copy over >>> any files. >>> >>> Is it really making progress? Or will it take this long to >>> really start copying files over each day I start it? >>> >>> I expect the total amount copied to be about 400G and about 4 >>> million files. >>> >>> It is possible to break this up into pieces if that would >>> help. >>> >>> Thank you for your help and advice, Perry >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ >> >> Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 >> Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. >> ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida >> k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: >> http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. >> ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ >> >> >> - -- >> 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 > - -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlLUY9QACgkQVKC1jlbQAQdUwgCg2hxQavwdblmuMzTLe/htpZq1 lTUAoNJp0tPVGYMw5TdJ/jRSXCWW9Kuq =EjQf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
