rsync --bwlimit

2020-11-26 Thread Harald Dunkel via rsync
Hi folks, Looking at my network charts in Zabbix I have the impression that rsync --bwlimit is affected by foreign rsyncs (with or without --bwlimit). Can you confirm? Regards Harri -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options:

mirror block devices

2017-06-26 Thread Harald Dunkel via rsync
Hi folks, I have to migrate a set of iscsi backstores to a new target via network. To reduce downtime I would like to mirror the active volumes first, next stop the initators, and then do a final incremental sync. The backstores have a size between 256 GByte and 1 TByte each. In toto its about 8

deduplicate mode?

2016-12-12 Thread Harald Dunkel
Have you considered to introduce a "deduplicate mode" for rsync, replacing duplicate files in the destination directory by hard links? Of course there might be a lot of problems together with this feature, but on creating backups it could help to save a lot of disk space. --link-dest might be int

Re: make "rsync -N" == "rsync --numeric-ids" ?

2016-11-23 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 11/18/2016 10:49 AM, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Fri 18 Nov 2016, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> >> "--numeric-ids" is a lot of text and easy to be forgotten or >> misspelled. >> >> Since it is a highly important option for making backups of >> r

make "rsync -N" == "rsync --numeric-ids" ?

2016-11-18 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, "--numeric-ids" is a lot of text and easy to be forgotten or misspelled. Since it is a highly important option for making backups of remote systems via rsync I wonder if "-N" could be introduced as an abbreviation for "--numeric-ids"? "-N" is not in use yet, afaics. Just a suggestion,

failure for "rsync -X"

2016-06-15 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Problem: "rsync -aX remote:/somepath ." fails, if the remote site doesn't support extended attributes. Sample session # rsync -aX aix1:/usr/man . rsync: extended attributes are not supported on this server rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1554) [server=3.1.1] rsync:

"quick check" failed

2009-09-17 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, We ran 2 mirror jobs using "rsync -av remote:/from /to" of appr. 700 GByte. Problem: On the second run about 10 or 15 files were copied again, even though we are very sure that there was no service running which could have changed the files on remote:/from or on /to. Esp. Samba and NFS w

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-08 Thread Harald Dunkel
Chris Shoemaker wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:35:51AM -0700, Tim Conway wrote: If it is, as you say, uncompressed, rsync will work on it as-is, finding and sending the changes. That was exactly my first thought, but I think he was meaning to say that the file's contents were 2GB when uncompre

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-04 Thread Harald Dunkel
Shachar Shemesh wrote: What distro is this? If it's Debian, gzip has an option called "--rsyncable". This makes changes to the uncompressed file local in the compressed file. Of course it is Debian. Following your hint I have found http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/ Many thanx Harri -- To u

rsync huge tar files

2005-02-04 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Are there any tricks known to let rsync operate on huge tar files? I've got a local tar file (e.g. 2GByte uncompressed) that is rebuilt each night (with just some tiny changes, of course), and I would like to update the remote copies of this file without extracting the tar files into temp