Does atimes.diff patch work?

2016-03-28 Thread Albert Berger
Greetings, I applied the atimes.diff patch from the rsync-patches file from the rsync download page, but it seems not to be working: the original file access times of copied files are not preserved. Does this patch work correctly for someone? Regards, A. Berger. -- Please use reply-all for

Re: -H option causes unneccessary transfers

2016-03-28 Thread Albert Berger
Thanks! On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 08:49:09AM -0400, Kevin Korb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > My guess is that it is the atimes patch causing the problem. Normally > rsync would never say "u" in the itemized output as it is "reserved > for future use". Plus copying

Re: -H option causes unneccessary transfers

2016-03-28 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My guess is that it is the atimes patch causing the problem. Normally rsync would never say "u" in the itemized output as it is "reserved for future use". Plus copying the file would change the atime. On 03/28/2016 08:44 AM, Albert Berger wrote: >

Re: -H option causes unneccessary transfers

2016-03-28 Thread Albert Berger
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 08:11:07AM -0400, Kevin Korb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > What does --itemize-changes say about these files? > > Also, what is --atimes? Is this the Apple modified rsync for OSX? > > On 03/28/2016 07:51 AM, Albert Berger wrote: > >

Re: -H option causes unneccessary transfers

2016-03-28 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What does --itemize-changes say about these files? Also, what is --atimes? Is this the Apple modified rsync for OSX? On 03/28/2016 07:51 AM, Albert Berger wrote: > Greetings, > > when the daily system backup with rsync is performed, thousands of >

-H option causes unneccessary transfers

2016-03-28 Thread Albert Berger
Greetings, when the daily system backup with rsync is performed, thousands of files (e.g. from /usr directory), which are not modified are uselessly transferrred to the backup storage every day. The rsync command is the following: rsync --update -DHAErlptgo --relative --atimes --delete-during

Re: Memory consumption for rsync -axv --delete

2016-03-28 Thread John Long
Hi, On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 06:39:53PM -0700, drsalists wrote: > > You could probably use CIFS, NFS or sshfs. ??It wouldn't be as fast, but the > memory requirements should be less. Sorry, I don't understand how to sync over NFS or sshfs without rsync. Can you explain this please? I don't want