Hi,
Anybody knows how rsync transfer one single file if there is difference
between the two files, will rsync re-transfer the whole file or only
transfer the difference? In my experiment, i found rsync would retranster
the whole file again if there's a difference.
What I did were:
I manually cre
Hello,
I've got a script set up to back up some of our
server's (CentOS 4.3) directories to a mounted Samba
drive. One of the directories contains the mail and
during the file copy some open mail files are backed
up. However, these files are unable to be deleted from
the mounted drive giving an er
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:39:31 -0800,
Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You're better off maintaining a symlink named "current" that points to
> the most recent directory. Either that, or rename the dirs after the
> transfer.
Hm, that does not work as our backup software has to pick up th
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:41:55PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This works except when an existing file has been modified and is now
> "new" (and not the n'th hardlink) in the image. This file is copied to
> the "current" directory. A hardlink pointing to the file in lastimg is
> not created.
Hi!
It's me again with another --link-dest issue:
I am using dirvish (www.dirvish.org) to create daily backup on disk
images.
dirvish is using rsync with --link-dest pointing to the last good image.
This creates images with hardlinks to unmodified files. So far so good.
Now I want to create a "
On Mon 22 Jan 2007, Paul Slootman wrote:
>
> It's the same binary, compiled from rsync-HEAD-20070120-2211GMT.
I tried again with current cvs (with the 1.194 version of receiver.c),
and it still hangs when transferring an empty directory (it is created
on the receiver though). A local transfer (r
