Re: Transferring large files using rsync

2003-09-12 Thread cbarratt
jw schultz writes: On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:43:56PM -0500, Seann Herdejurgen wrote: [snip] Is there a way to tell rsync to update files in place and not create a temporary file? No. Nor can rsync be modified to do so. Is that true? I thought one could readily add an --inplace option

Re: Transferring large files using rsync

2003-09-12 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:04:26PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jw schultz writes: On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:43:56PM -0500, Seann Herdejurgen wrote: [snip] Is there a way to tell rsync to update files in place and not create a temporary file? No. Nor can rsync be modified to

Re: rsync silently changes special files to regular ones!

2003-09-12 Thread Clemens Fischer
* Martin Pool: On 25 Aug 2003 Clemens Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] You said copy the file, so it copied the file. Oh, you wanted *the contents of* the file? You should have said so. i did: rsync localhost::rsync/readme /dev/stdout given the hype rsync(1) is an improved cp(1)

Re: rsync silently changes special files to regular ones!

2003-09-12 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:50:15AM +0200, Clemens Fischer wrote: * Martin Pool: On 25 Aug 2003 Clemens Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] You said copy the file, so it copied the file. Oh, you wanted *the contents of* the file? You should have said so. i did: rsync

FW: rsync performance

2003-09-12 Thread Dave Mangelsdorf (CBIZ Tech)
Not sure if this is not the proper channel (forum) for this, but I need some help. We have been using rsync in various ways on various platforms. Linux-SGI (IRIX)-MacOSX In all cases the actual LOCAL file transfer seems to be limited to 10MB/sec from disk to disk. Always copy whole files.

Re: new option suggestion '--backup-only'

2003-09-12 Thread Takeru KOMORIYA
Hi, On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:54:41 -0700 jw schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about adding now option '--backup-only' that means making backups only and don't change any destination files? (I posted similar patch a month ago, but the patch was made for nightly

error from rsync2.5.6

2003-09-12 Thread Jennifer Lu
Hi, I just compiled new release 2.5.6 rsync in solaris5.9 machines, and ran a rsync job,I got the following errors: rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at main.c(620) Both source and destination servers are running 5.9, can you please tell me should I update anything in main.c file?

want rsync -v to report perm/mode changes

2003-09-12 Thread Scott Dworkis
currently (2.5.6) it seems to be silent and I cannot find a way to make it audible/verbose... is this possible? should it be? feature request? -Scott -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read:

Re: want rsync -v to report perm/mode changes

2003-09-12 Thread jw schultz
Please don't assume the subject is visible inside the message. subject was: want rsync -v to report perm/mode changes On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 05:27:30PM -0700, Scott Dworkis wrote: currently (2.5.6) it seems to be silent and I cannot find a way to make it audible/verbose... is this

Re: FW: rsync performance

2003-09-12 Thread Jim Salter
I'm sorry that you find rsync's local performance disappointing but that isn't what rsync is really for. If you do find specific enhancements that can be made that won't adversely affect portability we'd be glad to hear of them. JW - one thing that occurs to me is to wonder if it would be

Re: FW: rsync performance

2003-09-12 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:46:42PM -0400, Jim Salter wrote: I'm sorry that you find rsync's local performance disappointing but that isn't what rsync is really for. If you do find specific enhancements that can be made that won't adversely affect portability we'd be glad to hear of them.

Re: FW: rsync performance

2003-09-12 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:35:01AM -0400, Dave Mangelsdorf (CBIZ Tech) wrote: Not sure if this is not the proper channel (forum) for this, but I need some help. We have been using rsync in various ways on various platforms. Linux-SGI (IRIX)-MacOSX In all cases the actual LOCAL