Re: Use rsync's checksums to deduplicate across backups

2011-11-19 Thread Andrea Gelmini
2011/11/3 Alex Waite : >    Recently I learned that rsync does a checksum of every file > transferred.  I thought it might be interesting to record the path and > checksum of each file in a table.  On future backups, the checksum of I guess you can be interested in these projects: - lessfs:¹ dedup

Re: delete files

2011-11-19 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:49:18 +0100 "Brian K. White" wrote: > nj2:/opt/x # rsync -avvvn --force --delete --include=/tmp > --include=floof/ --exclude='*' /tmp/. co4::root/tmp/. Detail: /tmp being the "root of the transfer", "--include=/tmp" is wrong because it refers then to /tmp/tmp. I thing yo

Re: What kind of error is 13?

2011-11-19 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Axel Kittenberger wrote: > I never figured out how I should tread error 13 from rsync, "Problem with > diagnostics". My question is, is this a transient or permanent error? Rsync mainly outputs it when trying to log information, so it would typically indicate th

Re: Use rsync's checksums to deduplicate across backups

2011-11-19 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Andrea Gelmini wrote: > 2011/11/3 Alex Waite : > >Recently I learned that rsync does a checksum of every file > > transferred. I thought it might be interesting to record the path and > > checksum of each file in a table. On future backups, the checksum of >