RE: rsync of STDIN to a file.

2009-11-28 Thread Mark Young
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 12:09 +, Mark Young wrote: I believe the rdiff man page is still not correct, even with your submitted changes. It states In every case where a filename must be specified, - may be used instead to mean either standard input or standard output as appropriate

RE: rsync of STDIN to a file.

2009-11-25 Thread Mark Young
Hi Matt, I believe the rdiff man page is still not correct, even with your submitted changes. It states In every case where a filename must be specified, - may be used instead to mean either standard input or standard output as appropriate.. I've not found that to be the case. For instance:

RE: rsync of STDIN to a file.

2009-11-24 Thread Mark Young
Thanks very much Matt for the rdiff command examples and for filing a request to improve the documentation. Cheers, Mark -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options:

RE: rsync of STDIN to a file.

2009-11-20 Thread Mark Young
Thanks very much Eliot and Matt. I didn't know about gzip storing the original filename, thanks for the tip about the -n. As you say from rsync's point of view I'm sure the difference is negligible. Can you point me at any usage examples with rdiff. I've searched quite a bit and apart from

rsync of STDIN to a file.

2009-11-19 Thread Mark Young
Hi, I am hoping that rsync may be able to improve an existing network backup I've got: tar czf - --files-from $FILE_LIST | ssh -i $AUTH -l $USER $HOST cat ${DEST}/${SOURCE}_${FILE}.tgz You can see that this backup uses tar to create a single compressed archive and store it on a remote host

RE: rsync of STDIN to a file.

2009-11-19 Thread Mark Young
Hi Ryan Matt, Thank you both for your replies. I'll reply to you both in one go, starting with you Ryan. The decision to have tarballs on the remote site is arguably unnecessary. It's like that historically, and does cope with a very large hierachy of small files. There are many different

RE: rsync of STDIN to a file.

2009-11-19 Thread Mark Young
: RE: rsync of STDIN to a file. From: m...@mattmccutchen.net To: mark_yo...@hotmail.com CC: rsync@lists.samba.org Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:30 -0500 On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 16:28 +, Mark Young wrote: I tried an experiment to see how rsync coped with the tar compressed files versus