Re: Limit rsync running time

2009-09-17 Thread tevfik
Rsync has a 'time-limit' patch with following options: --stop-at=y-m-dTh:m Stop rsync at year-month-dayThour:minute --time-limit=MINS Stop rsync after MINS minutes have elapsed Tev > Hi > > I'd like to rsync a large amount of data over a slow connection, > but only during night hours.

Re: Limit rsync running time

2009-09-17 Thread Fabian Cenedese
At 15:14 17.09.2009 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: >On Thu 17 Sep 2009, Fabian Cenedese wrote: >> >> Has anybody already written a bash script that would do something >> like that? Are there other ways? I don't want to kill all rsync >> processes as there might be other syncs going on. > >There is fo

Re: Limit rsync running time

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 17 Sep 2009, Fabian Cenedese wrote: > > Has anybody already written a bash script that would do something > like that? Are there other ways? I don't want to kill all rsync > processes as there might be other syncs going on. There is for example a "timeout" package available in Debian: Pac

Re: Limit rsync running time

2009-09-17 Thread Tomas Norre Mikkelsen
Hi, I have done this with a cron job, only the first time i had to transfer 15GB, but did it first time in the weekend, afterwards, in my situation is only a small amount of data that has to be transfered every night, so every day at 02.00 the rsync starts and stops automaticly within 1-3 hours.

Limit rsync running time

2009-09-17 Thread Fabian Cenedese
Hi I'd like to rsync a large amount of data over a slow connection, but only during night hours. I couldn't find a parameter that limits the time that rsync is running, only the timeout on idle time. I guess the way to go would be to start rsync, get the process ID and kill the process later on.