difference between src and destination sizes when rsync was run

2005-08-31 Thread Venkatesh.S
hello all, i have two machines, one is a rsync server and another is rsync client when i run the rsync client for backup, the src dir is showing 4.8G and the destination dir to which i am backingup is showing 5.5G can anyone tell me why is this. thank u all regards venkatesh -- Venkatesh.S

Re: difference between src and destination sizes when rsync was run

2005-08-31 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 31 Aug 2005, Venkatesh.S wrote: i have two machines, one is a rsync server and another is rsync client when i run the rsync client for backup, the src dir is showing 4.8G and the destination dir to which i am backingup is showing 5.5G can anyone tell me why is this. Filesystem

Re: difference between src and destination sizes when rsync was run

2005-08-31 Thread agow
Venkatesh.S wrote: hello all, i have two machines, one is a rsync server and another is rsync client when i run the rsync client for backup, the src dir is showing 4.8G and the destination dir to which i am backingup is showing 5.5G can anyone tell me why is this. thank u all regards

patch for preserving extended posix ACLs

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Lowman
Attached is a small patch which is meant to be applied to a copy of rsync which has already been patched with acl support (the acls.diff file in the patches folder). It allows the preservation of the delete, chmod, and chown bits which Adaptec has added to XFS on their SnapOS NAS units. This is

performance problem of using parallel rsync to stage data from 1 source to multiple destination

2005-08-31 Thread xuehai zhang
Hi all, I am new to rsync and I apologize in advance if my question is shallow. I write a simple script to use rsync to transfer a big file (~600MB)from a single source to variable number of destinations in a parallel way. When I transfer the file to 4 destination machines, I get X overall

Re: difference between src and destination sizes when rsync was run

2005-08-31 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 05:06:47AM -0700, Venkatesh.S wrote: when i run the rsync client for backup, the src dir is showing 4.8G and the destination dir to which i am backingup is showing 5.5G can anyone tell me why is this. In addition to the other replies, if some of the files are