Re: keep 2 dirs in sync

2011-07-03 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Mark Constable ma...@renta.net wrote: Would anyone know of any project written in C/C++ based directly on rsync, and maybe Git? The rsync resources page mentions dsync, which is (IIRC) a perl script wrapper around rsync. ..wayne.. -- Please use reply-all for

Re: non-efficient sparse file copying with rsync

2011-07-03 Thread grarpamp
The question is whether it is possible to copy sparse files as sparse, but to preserve the original file size? By file size I mean the size, that a file actually occupies on file system as reported by du --block-size=1 FILE. The apparent size is always the same. If supported by your platform,

[Bug 8284] New: hfs-compression.diff patch incorrectly expands relative directory

2011-07-03 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8284 Summary: hfs-compression.diff patch incorrectly expands relative directory Product: rsync Version: 3.0.8 Platform: x64 OS/Version: Mac OS X Status: NEW

Brandysnap -- a new rsync-based snapshot management script

2011-07-03 Thread Chris Dennis
Brandysnap is an rsync-based script with a difference. Unlike dirvish, it does not assign importance to snapshots when they are created. All snapshots are created equal, and then they are managed so that the required number of old snapshots is maintained. Unlike rsnapshot, brandysnap does not

Re: inefficient: --checksum calculation shouldn't be done for new files

2011-07-03 Thread Jamie Lokier
Carlos Carvalho wrote: When --checksum is used they're calculated in both ends to see if the file should be transfered. This is of course not necessary if the file doesn't exist in the destination. However, the checksum is still calculated by the sender, which is often a very large overhead.

Re: inefficient: --checksum calculation shouldn't be done for new files

2011-07-03 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Jamie Lokier (ja...@shareable.org) wrote on 4 July 2011 00:00: Carlos Carvalho wrote: When --checksum is used they're calculated in both ends to see if the file should be transfered. This is of course not necessary if the file doesn't exist in the destination. However, the checksum is still

Re: Brandysnap -- a new rsync-based snapshot management script

2011-07-03 Thread Henri Shustak
Hi Chris, https://github.com/StarsoftAnalysis/brandysnap I am involved with the LBackup project. Would you be okay with a link being generated to the Brandyon github page from the LBackup alternatives http://www.lbackup.org/alternatives page? Depending upon the license you release Brandysnap