On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:23:59PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: | You can implement such optimizations on top of rsync using either | excludes or the --files-from option. For instance, if the sending | side maintained an exclude file of old directories that didn't need | to be transferred, you could write a script that would look for | updated items and remove the appropriate exclusion. An exclude list | would have to be grabbed first from the remote side before it could | be used, though.
How would the sending side know what directories are "old" for a given receiver? One receiving side may run their update today for an old directory that had one file changed. But another receiving side may not run its update for a few more days or even weeks. This sounds like the sending side needs to keep track of what each different receiver has or doesn't have. That's what I used to do before rsync. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Phil Howard KA9WGN | http://linuxhomepage.com/ http://ham.org/ | | (first name) at ipal.net | http://phil.ipal.org/ http://ka9wgn.ham.org/ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
