Re: Troubleshooting RSYNC

2018-08-05 Thread John Long via rsync
Hi, On Sat, 2018-08-04 at 15:28 -0600, Leon via rsync wrote: > Greetings, > > I am having a problem with rsync deleting entire folders and files > and then attempting to recopy the entire contents of the folder(s) > even though they are up to date. The task is syncing from ubuntu > (rsync versi

Re: How should I be using rsync with FAT32/VFAT

2018-01-16 Thread John Long via rsync
On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 13:51 -0500, Kevin Korb via rsync wrote: > You don't have to change the system setting just change the TZ env > variable in the terminal you run rsync in. > Good point, thanks -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or c

Re: How should I be using rsync with FAT32/VFAT

2018-01-16 Thread John Long via rsync
for #2 is to always run > rsync in a time zone that does not have clock changes (ie env TZ=UTC > rsync --modify-window=2 ) This way rsync will copy the > timestamps > using the same interpretation of what they mean. > > > On 01/16/2018 12:48 PM, John Long via rsync wrot

How should I be using rsync with FAT32/VFAT

2018-01-16 Thread John Long via rsync
using -rt instead of the usual -a Do you have recommendations on the best way to keep file trees in sync when one of them is FAT32 and the other is a real filesystem? Thanks, John Long -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options

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

Re: Memory consumption for rsync -axv --delete

2016-03-27 Thread John Long
last time you ran rsync. Just rm -rf the old one. Or > keep a few. Or a few dozen. > > On 03/27/2016 02:54 AM, John Long wrote: > > Thanks I'll look this up. There is still the issue of how to get > > the target box cleaned up since I can no longer run --delete. > &

Re: Memory consumption for rsync -axv --delete

2016-03-26 Thread John Long
stored. > > On 03/27/2016 02:39 AM, John Long wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 11:16:47AM -0400, Kevin Korb wrote: > > > >> If you were using --link-dest to make multiple backups you > >> wouldn't need --delete because the target

Re: Memory consumption for rsync -axv --delete

2016-03-26 Thread John Long
Hi, On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 11:16:47AM -0400, Kevin Korb wrote: > If you were using --link-dest to make multiple backups you wouldn't > need --delete because the target is always a new empty directory (with > - --link-dest pointing to the previous backup run). The source is around 200G and the t

Re: Memory consumption for rsync -axv --delete

2016-03-25 Thread John Long
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 09:54:14AM +, John Long wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using rsync for many years and never had any kind of problem. > Lately I am running out of RAM trying to do an incremental backup to a box > that only has 2G of RAM. The entire directory structure I

Memory consumption for rsync -axv --delete

2016-03-25 Thread John Long
Hi, I have been using rsync for many years and never had any kind of problem. Lately I am running out of RAM trying to do an incremental backup to a box that only has 2G of RAM. The entire directory structure I'm mirroring is about 200G of files. A minority of subdirectories have many files. Is t