rsync --timeout question

2006-07-09 Thread Eric Horne
I'm just not entirely clear from the man page.. does the timeout start counting from the last communication, or does it start counting from the beginning of the transmission? also, if the server is set to timeout at, say, 300s, and it's busy moving stuff around but not talking to the client, d

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

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 deleting symbolic link unexpectedly

2005-12-20 Thread Eric Horne
Matt straightened me all out, thanks again. Using -K -L did exactly what I wanted it to do. Now I just need to get it to work with remotes that aren't at 2.6.3 or above (think I'll be upgrading those) :) -Eric Matt McCutchen wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 13:53 -0800, Eric H

Re: rsync deleting symbolic link unexpectedly

2005-12-20 Thread Eric Horne
k, and was left with the same behaviour -- that the symlink turns into a directory. So I think I'm still stuck (or I misunderstood what you said) -Eric Matt McCutchen wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 11:40 -0800, Eric Horne wrote: rsync -rlptDvzL --stats --include=a/ --include=a/dir/ --includ

rsync deleting symbolic link unexpectedly

2005-12-20 Thread Eric Horne
I'm running 2.6.6 on a red hat EL3 system. using the following command, rsync -rlptDvzL --stats --include=a/ --include=a/dir/ --include=a/dir/symlink/ --include=a/dir/symlink/dir2/ --include=a/dir/symlink/dir2/dir3/ --exclude='**' /export/stuff remote::stuff I expect the "symlink" (which is

iinclude/excludes and symbolic links

2005-11-04 Thread Eric Horne
I'm trying to rsync a directory structure and it's contents to another machine. I want to make sure that the entire toplevel part of the directory structure is created at the remote site, since it may not exist. top: A/ B/ C/ under B/: 1/ 2/ 3/ under 2/: x/ y/ z/ all of this is located in /t