Re: Number of Files Transferred Seems Wrong
Hi All, This is a continuation of a thread I started some time ago at http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg19852.html The first occurrence of this problem seems to have just gone away and all was good for a week or so. I have now seen this same behaviour again, though. I'm not sure where the logs went so sadly I cannot provide output from rsync, but the problem is roughly the same as before in that the 'Number of files trasferred entry provided by the --stats switch is incorrect. During testing, I completely removed everything from my testing dir and then ran an rsync into it from another directory on the same machine into this directory. When the transfer was complete, I had the entire /etc /var and /root dirs in my testing directory and the file space totalled a little over 1GB. The report generated by the --stats switch showed something like 35,000 files as the Number of files but only 2 were indicated as transferred under the Number of files transferred item of the same report. I know this number is wrong as there was nothing in my testing dir and now there are the entire contents of the /etc, /var and /root dir, but I don't know why the Number of files transferred is incorrect. Can someone shed some light for me on exactly how the 'Number of files transferred' number is arrived at? Perhaps it's not at cut and dried as I think. Thanks Jon -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: Number of Files Transferred Seems Wrong
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 10:11 -0400, Jon wrote: During testing, I completely removed everything from my testing dir and then ran an rsync into it from another directory on the same machine into this directory. When the transfer was complete, I had the entire /etc /var and /root dirs in my testing directory and the file space totalled a little over 1GB. The report generated by the --stats switch showed something like 35,000 files as the Number of files but only 2 were indicated as transferred under the Number of files transferred item of the same report. I know this number is wrong as there was nothing in my testing dir and now there are the entire contents of the /etc, /var and /root dir, but I don't know why the Number of files transferred is incorrect. That is very odd, but I can't do much to troubleshoot it from the information you gave. Please repeat this procedure but pass -vvii to rsync to get more information, and post your command line and the resulting log. Can someone shed some light for me on exactly how the 'Number of files transferred' number is arrived at? Perhaps it's not at cut and dried as I think. It is the number of regular files in the file list whose data is transferred from sender to receiver either in full or using the delta-transfer algorithm. Once rsync decides to transfer a file, the transfer counts even if the data was already identical. The statistic includes exactly those files whose itemize codes begin with or (indicating a transfer) in the -i output. Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: Number of FIles Transferred Seems Wrong
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 12:33 -0400, Jon wrote: I'm so confused as to what keeps happening to my subject. I started this thread as something like Number of files transferred is wrong and the two replies I've received so far have totally different subjects. In the copy of your message that I received and in the archive at http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync , the original subject appears as 'Re: Welcome to the rsync mailing list'; perhaps something was wrong with your email client. Paul kept that subject in his reply, and in my reply I changed the subject to something I felt was more meaningful, rsync retransferring every file, using brackets to indicate that I had changed the subject. From now on I'll use the subject you intended. :) Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: Number of FIles Transferred Seems Wrong
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 11:29 -0400, Jon wrote: One piece of information that I forgot to mention in my original post is that the second rsync takes about 3 seconds. There are no files transferred on the second rsync yet the 293 are being reported. If the files were actually being transferred again then I could agree, but that's not the case, Rsync seems to be doing exactly what it is supposed to be doing. It's just that one stat that doesn't appear to jive with anything. As I see it, it is your claim that rsync is not transferring anything that does not jive with the Number of files transferred and Matched data stats and the absence of the -t option. (Matched data is data matched by the delta-transfer algorithm in transferred files; files that are already up to date are counted neither in Literal data nor in Matched data.) Does rsync print the names of the 293 files? If so, it is transferring them. For further evidence, pass the -i option; an output line of the form f..T.. foo means that rsync is transferring () foo because of a difference in mtime (T). In any case, the solution is to pass the -t option; if for some reason you don't want to preserve mtimes, you can use --checksum instead. Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
