On Sun, 2005-01-23 12:44:28 +0200, israel Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The following problem has appeared in the past but I have not seen > satisfactory solution. > It is common when synchronizing large amount of files over slow link.
Should work, at least if your machine does have enough RAM to keep the file list in memory... > I would like to synchronize 1TB of data between local and remote sites > over WAN. > For the initial synchronization, I would like to transfer the files from > the local site to the remote site using tapes, > and use Rsync only for the incremental synchronization. No problem. > After copying the files from the tapes at the remote site, it would have > been nice if Rsync had an option that would scan > the files and generate the checksums/hash values necessary for the > incremental synchronization step. > (so that I would not need to use Rsync for the initial transfer). Have you searched the man page for "checksum"? I'm sure you didn't ... > If this was an option, do I need to generate the checksums/hash values > on the local site prior to incremental synchronization ? See manpage :-) > Is it complicated to add to Rsync an option that would just generate > checksums/hash values of files so that > the solution above becomes feasible ?. No need for that... MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier BÃrger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));
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