On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Jeff Davis <pg...@j-davis.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 22:21 +0100, Henk Bronk wrote: > > actually rsync works fine on file level and is good for manual syncing. > > it check really the files with the stat command, so a bit change will > trigger the copy > > in practice you need to keep an eye on compleetness of the rsync action. > > Rsync still needs to examine the entire file. It has no information to > know that the file is the same on master and slave. > > We could try to give it the appropriate information on which it can make > that assumption -- e.g. keep the timestamps the same so that rsync > assumes the contents are the same. But that seems fragile and I don't > see a good way of doing it, anyway. > > We need a way to take a base backup of just the catalogs, essentially, > and leave the user data intact. Probably quite a few details to sort out > though. > > Regards, > Jeff Davis > > rsync can take file that contains a list of files to sync. Is there a convenient way to generate such a control file?
