On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:35:10PM -1000, Robot Robot wrote:
> Like I said, though, the majority of the time it is re-pulling. Why is
> it doing this?
The --link-dest check looks for identical files, so the files must be
unchanged in, by default, their size, mod-time, and permissions, OR,
when usi
You're asking du to report each directory separately, which is deceivingyou. Run "du -hsc /backup/websites" instead.
When I run that, it shows that there truly are two complete copies:$ du -hsc /backup/websites4.2G /backup/websites4.2G totalI'm fairly certain du is intelligent enough to reco
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:19:44AM -1000, Robot Robot wrote:
> $ du -hsc /backup/websites/*
> 2.1G/backup/websites/1
> 2.1G/backup/websites/2
> 4.2Gtotal
You're asking du to report each directory separately, which is deceiving
you. Run "du -hsc /backup/websites" instead.
..wayne..
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On Thursday 06 Apr 2006 11:19, Robot Robot wrote:
> I'm using version 2.6.3 on OS X. I'm trying to use --link-dest to keep some
> rolling backups of production websites. There is about 2GB of data in
> 60,000 total files. I do an initial rsync to get an initial copy of the
> data, and each day ther
I'm using version 2.6.3 on OS X. I'm trying to use --link-dest to keep some rolling backups of production websites. There is about 2GB of data in 60,000 total files. I do an initial rsync to get an initial copy of the data, and each day thereafter I run rsync again with --link-dest to create a new
