Re: rsync: failed to hard-link error message

2006-07-08 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:43:27PM -0700, Brett Hamilton wrote: rsync: failed to hard-link /Volumes/backups/vanguard/backup.0/dev/agpgart with dev/agpgart: Invalid argument (22) The message Invalid argument is from your OS, and it looks like it is being generated when trying to hard-link a

Rsync --delay-updates takes a long time

2006-07-08 Thread Eric Horne
Hi. I'm running rsync 2.6.8 at two sites with --partial/--partial-dir and --delay-updates enabled. It seems that once the transfer is complete, --delay-updates takes a really long time to copy data. From strace output, it looks like it is actually re-reading the data out of the .rsync-partial

Re: Rsync --delay-updates takes a long time

2006-07-08 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 08:07:43AM -0700, Eric Horne wrote: It seems that once the transfer is complete, --delay-updates takes a really long time to copy data. From strace output, it looks like it is actually re-reading the data out of the .rsync-partial directory for each file and then

Re: Rsync --delay-updates takes a long time

2006-07-08 Thread Eric Horne
Wayne Davison wrote: On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 08:07:43AM -0700, Eric Horne wrote: It seems that once the transfer is complete, --delay-updates takes a really long time to copy data. The only file movement that --delay-updates supports is renaming -- it never re-copies the files.

How rsync works

2006-07-08 Thread Grignon Mickaël
Hi, I'm translating the document How rsync works to understand exactly how rsync works when it finds modified files. I'mtranslating "the sender" and I notice a strange fact. I would like to take an example where a byte ismissing in a file. In facts : The generator has created a cheksum

Re: How rsync works

2006-07-08 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 7/8/06, Grignon Mickaël [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will rsync erase the byte in excess on the receiver even if the --delete option is not set ? Yes. --delete is only needed to delete entire files, not extraneous bytes. Wayne, let me suggest the following clarification/fix to the original