Re: rsync - what can it do?

2003-02-05 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 06:09, Steve Bonds wrote: On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, bob parker bob_parker-at-dodo.com.au |Rsync List| wrote: Maybe I'm barking completely up the wrong tree but here goes. I've downloaded a 700meg iso by ftp using a steam powered dial up connection. It took a week and

Re: rsync - what can it do?

2003-02-05 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 05:57, Green, Paul wrote: bob parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] asks: I've downloaded a 700meg iso by ftp using a steam powered dial up connection. It took a week and naturally many resumes. Murphy's Law did not take a holiday of course so the md5sum of the

Re: rsync in-place (was Re: rsync 1tb+ each day)

2003-02-05 Thread Craig Barratt
Is it possible to tell rsync to update the blocks of the target file=20 'in-place' without creating the temp file (the 'dot file')? I can=20 guarantee that no other operations are being performed on the file at=20 the same time. The docs don't seem to indicate such an option. No, it's

Re: rsync 1tb+ each day

2003-02-05 Thread Craig Barratt
I am rsyncing 1tb of data each day. I am finding in my testing that actually removing the target files each day then rsyncing is faster than doing a compare of the source-target files then rsyncing over the delta blocks. This is because we have a fast link between the two boxes, and

Re: rsync - what can it do?

2003-02-05 Thread Max Bowsher
bob parker wrote: Actually in this instance there is no hierarchy, it is just one flat 700 meg iso. So my question is can rsync sort out out which parts of it have errors and just download the corrupted parts of it? Yes. Transferring a file, whilst making use of bits of it that are already

Re: rsync - what can it do?

2003-02-05 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 00:42, Max Bowsher wrote: bob parker wrote: Actually in this instance there is no hierarchy, it is just one flat 700 meg iso. So my question is can rsync sort out out which parts of it have errors and just download the corrupted parts of it? Yes. Transferring a file,

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Re: rsync in-place (was Re: rsync 1tb+ each day)

2003-02-05 Thread Ben Escoto
CB == Craig Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on Wed, 05 Feb 2003 04:41:22 -0800 CB Of course, a major issue with --inplace is that the file will be CB in an intermediate state if rsync is killed mid-transfer. Rsync CB currently ensures that every file is either the original

Re: rsync in-place (was Re: rsync 1tb+ each day)

2003-02-05 Thread Paul Haas
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Craig Barratt wrote: Of course, a major issue with --inplace is that the file will be in an intermediate state if rsync is killed mid-transfer. Rsync currently ensures that every file is either the original or new. I hate silent corruption. Much better to have things

Re: rsync in-place (was Re: rsync 1tb+ each day)

2003-02-05 Thread Mike Rubel
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Ben Escoto wrote: CB == Craig Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on Wed, 05 Feb 2003 04:41:22 -0800 CB Of course, a major issue with --inplace is that the file will be CB in an intermediate state if rsync is killed mid-transfer. Rsync CB currently

Re: rsync in-place (was Re: rsync 1tb+ each day)

2003-02-05 Thread Bennett Todd
2003-02-05T07:41:22 Craig Barratt: The trick is that when --inplace is specified the block matching algorithm (on the sender) would only match blocks at or after that block's location (on the receiver). ... and only when the source block in question remains unchanged in the new file? No

Re: rsync in-place (was Re: rsync 1tb+ each day)

2003-02-05 Thread Ben Escoto
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:17:03AM -0800, Mike Rubel wrote: CB Of course, a major issue with --inplace is that the file will be CB in an intermediate state if rsync is killed mid-transfer. Rsync CB currently ensures that every file is either the original or new. I'm curious, how

Re: rsync in-place (was Re: rsync 1tb+ each day)

2003-02-05 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:52:45AM -0800, Ben Escoto wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:17:03AM -0800, Mike Rubel wrote: CB Of course, a major issue with --inplace is that the file will be CB in an intermediate state if rsync is killed mid-transfer. Rsync CB currently ensures that

incremental backup preserving extended attributes

2003-02-05 Thread Eric Chen
Hi, I have 2 linux machines, SOURCE and DEST on a network. I create some snapshots of the file structure on SOURCE and these snapshots have extended attributes. I want to copy the snapshots from SOURCE over to DEST over the network, but I don't want to lose the information on the extended

Re: rsync 1tb+ each day

2003-02-05 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:53:25AM -0800, Kenny Gorman wrote: Eric Whiting wrote: I've learned some good things from this discussion. THanks. Kenny, I have one concern/idea -- The original post says the 'disk is fairly slow'. That is one bottleneck that should probably be examined a little

Re: rsync 1tb+ each day

2003-02-05 Thread Eric Whiting
Kenny Gorman wrote: I am rsyncing 1tb of data each day. I am finding in my testing that actually removing the target files each day then rsyncing is faster than doing a compare of the source-target files then rsyncing over the delta blocks. This is because we have a fast link between the

Trouble with include/exclude patterns

2003-02-05 Thread Anand Buddhdev
I'm using rsync 2.5.4 on my RedHat 7.3 client laptop and rsync 2.5.5 on my RedHat 8.0 server. On the client, I have a directory rpm with 5 subdirectories, out of which I only want to copy the one called SRPMS across. I also have another directory .mozilla out of which I want to copy across 2

Re: rsync 1tb+ each day

2003-02-05 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 10:01, Eric Whiting wrote: Kenny Gorman wrote: [...] I tested with a small 256M datafile. rsync -av is showing me about 200kBytes of changes in the datafile between each snapshot. (about 1/1000th of the file has actually changed between the hot backups) Rsync reports the

Re: Trouble with include/exclude patterns

2003-02-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Anand Buddhdev wrote: I'm using rsync 2.5.4 on my RedHat 7.3 client laptop and rsync 2.5.5 on my RedHat 8.0 server. On the client, I have a directory rpm with 5 subdirectories, out of which I only want to copy the one called SRPMS across. I also have another directory .mozilla out of which I

Re: Trouble with include/exclude patterns

2003-02-05 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:17:34AM -, Max Bowsher wrote: --include .mozilla --include .mozilla/arb/ --exclude .mozilla/arb/* --include .mozilla/arb/kfgj0v2y.slt/ --include .mozilla/arb/kfgj0v2y.slt/bookmarks.html --include .mozilla/arb/kfgj0v2y.slt/prefs.js --exclude

Re: Trouble with include/exclude patterns

2003-02-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Wayne Davison wrote: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:17:34AM -, Max Bowsher wrote: --include .mozilla --include .mozilla/arb/ --exclude .mozilla/arb/* --include .mozilla/arb/kfgj0v2y.slt/ --include .mozilla/arb/kfgj0v2y.slt/bookmarks.html --include .mozilla/arb/kfgj0v2y.slt/prefs.js

Re: Trouble with include/exclude patterns

2003-02-05 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:58:28AM -, Max Bowsher wrote: It would copy nothing from arb, surely? Sorry, I meant to say that it might copy more from .mozzilla than just arb, but a re-edit ruined that thought. I don't think .mozilla was in rpm: You're right, I missed that. Duh. Hopefully

different behavior in dry-run than without

2003-02-05 Thread george donnelly
hi when i run this command in dry-run mode, its complies with the include exclude rules perfectly (based on what it shows me; i.e. it only gives me the stuff i have specified and not every single folder in /usr/home). however when i run it without the -n option it, it backs up all the folders in

CVS update: rsync/packaging/redhat/5.0

2003-02-05 Thread Paul Green
Date: Wed Feb 5 18:41:53 2003 Author: paulg Update of /data/cvs/rsync/packaging/redhat/5.0 In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv14882/rsync/packaging/redhat/5.0 Modified Files: rsync.spec rsync.spec.tmpl Log Message: Update packaging spec files per patch submitted by Horst von