Re: [feature request?]: Show progress only for big files

2023-02-28 Thread Lars Ellenberg via rsync
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 01:21:40PM +0100, anubis23 via rsync wrote: > Hi, > > I've read through the rsync manpage, this mailing list, asked Google and > studied lots of posts on stackexchange.com (stackoverflow, > superuser...), askubuntu.com and some others, concerning rsync's > capabilities of s

Re: Is it possible to transfer a large, dynamic file in a piecemeal fashion?

2017-09-05 Thread Lars Ellenberg via rsync
ion to have rsync pick up where it left off it > seems impossible to transmit a large file in a piecemeal fashion. > Because the (nearly) same 200GB at the beginning of the 2TB file gets > retransmitted over and over with each restart. Would --partial work for you? Possibly combine wit

Re: [Bug 12806] Deleting in a row of hardlinked snapshots resets file permissions.

2017-06-08 Thread Lars Ellenberg via rsync
On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 07:09:24AM +, just subscribed for rsync-qa from bugzilla via rsync wrote: > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12806 > > --- Comment #4 from Heinz-Willi Wyes --- > I got a personal message from Lars Ellenberg that went also to > samba-b...@samb

Re: [Bug 12806] Deleting in a row of hardlinked snapshots resets file permissions.

2017-05-29 Thread Lars Ellenberg via rsync
Calling chmod only on (optimization: non-empty) directories would fix this. I don't need to chmod a *file* before unlinking it, I just need write permission on the directory it is located in. (Now you have to convince the "appliance" to use a patched rsync ...) Cheers,

Re: rsync buffer overflow detected

2017-05-04 Thread Lars Ellenberg via rsync
er entity was spawning rsync) leaked file descriptors, learn to use O_CLOEXEC resp. set FD_CLOEXEC, so only 0,1,2 will be inherited. quick and dirty workaround: use a wrapper script, close all fds >= 3 "just in case", then exec rsync. > It looks like a bug, but I'm not sure) T

Re: [Bug 7120] Variable bandwidth limit .. bwlimit

2017-03-06 Thread Lars Ellenberg
On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 05:38:15PM +, samba-b...@samba.org wrote: > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7120 > > --- Comment #7 from roland --- > please mind the note from this posting when using pv: > http://superuser.com/questions/778066/using-pv1-to-limit-rsync-speed > > > --snipp

Re: rsync takes a long time to start doing any transfers

2012-07-26 Thread Lars Ellenberg
sync was supposed to start transferring > before fully testing all of the files in a directory? > > I am using version 3.0.9 under Cygwin. > > Is there a command line switch I am supposed to use to force rsync to start > transferring more quickly? > > Any insight / suggest

Re: rsync based on checksum only

2012-07-05 Thread Lars Ellenberg
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 09:26:05AM -0700, Yan Seiner wrote: > Is it possible to tell rsync *not* to use file names, date stamps, etc and > only use the checksum for deciding if a file is the same? > > the remote machine "normalizes" a set of file names to remove all > punctuation marks and forces