Hello, Sometimes when creating hard links to the rsync destination directory, it seems like the new directory (created from the cp -al command) ends up with all the data. This causes a problem in the sense that if the rsync destination directory had 21GB, after the cp -al command, it ends up having only 8mb, then the rsync source directory determines that it now requires 21.98GB to update the destination directory.
Here is an example of a test that I was doing. I have no idea why sometimes it works like it should, and sometimes it doesn't. My destination directory is called 'Latest'. [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# du --max-depth=1 -h 21G ./Latest 21G . [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# cp -al Latest/ ktest/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# du --max-depth=1 -h 21G ./Latest 8.7M ./ktest 21G . [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# rm ktest/ -rf [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# cp -al Latest/ mtest/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# du --max-depth=1 -h 21G ./Latest 8.7M ./mtest 21G . [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# rm mtest/ -rf [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# cp -al Latest/ test/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# du --max-depth=1 -h 21G ./test 8.3M ./Latest 21G . The last instance is the problem that happens quite often. Now when I perform an rsync as such: rsync /share/ /backup/Latest --stats --recursive --archive --times --modify-window=1 --delete --ignore-errors --no-whole-file --files-from=/var/www/html/new/var/backup_selections.txt --exclude-from=/var/www/html/new/var/file-exclude --progress I get the following results: Number of files: 53911 Number of files transferred: 52223 Total file size: 21654476720 bytes Total transferred file size: 21654476720 bytes Literal data: 21651840443 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 992872 Total bytes sent: 21657710607 Total bytes received: 1044480 And a du gives me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# du --max-depth=1 -h 21G ./test 21G ./Latest 41G . It appears that due to the cp -al command not working right as stated above, the literal changes needed was everything minus the 8.3mb, when in reality there were very few changes between 'Share' and 'Latest'. Can someone give any guidance on this issue? There are time when this will happen several times throughout the 30 day incremental routine so the disk requirements are very large. How can I keep all the data in 'Latest' consistently after using the cp -al command? Thanks, Max -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
