-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 is it possible to talk directly to the NFS server via rsyncd or rsync over ssh? Eliminating the extra hop through a network mount should make a big difference.
On 08/02/12 18:30, Peter Scott wrote: > Hello. I suspect that what I want to do is not possible with > rsync, but this is the best place to double-check. > > We are pushing files to a remote target that stores them on a very > slow network file system. There are also over a million files on > the target. Consequently, running rsync to push an update takes > hours while the remote side enumerates and stats all those files. > > I thought, that wouldn't be necessary if the remote side was > running rsync in daemon mode, and that it only built its internal > map of the files there once after startup, thereafter updating that > in-memory list with every push it receives. For that to work, > there would have to be some flag I could set to promise rsyncd that > no files in the target would be updated through any means other > than rsyncd. I looked for such an option, did some experimenting > with write-only targets, straced the daemon and saw I wasn't > getting anywhere. > > Our alternatives are options like building a list of what has > changed and copying only those things across. There's some > housekeeping and race condition avoidance in there that makes it > more than a couple of simple commands and replicates some of what > rsync knows how to do already. By any chance is what I want to do > possible with rsyncd, or some other tool? - -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlAbApcACgkQVKC1jlbQAQcYHgCg6HYJATQn4kf/duAC+owxPq5w TNAAoNFXN8MAcKbBEbXk2cKgF/4MNgE5 =D9DM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html