Re: Rsync - expensive startup question

2003-11-09 Thread Corey McGuire
Would something like "find -type d -exec rsync {}/* server::mod/{}/. \;" work for you? At least, something elong those lines... -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Rsync - expensive startup question

2003-11-09 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:09:42PM -0500, Cedric Puddy wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm using rsync with some large trees of files (on one > disk, we have 30M files, for example, and a we might > be copying say, 500k files in one tree. The file trees > are reasonably balenced -- no single directory

Re: malloc errors? out of memory with many files on HP-UX

2003-11-09 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:33:07AM -0600, King, Daniel wrote: > Hi, folks. > > I've started getting these errors from rsync, and any help would be > appreciated: > > >ERROR: out of memory in string_area_new buffer > >rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util.c(115) > >ER

Re: rsync enhancement - check destination before creating file list?

2003-11-09 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:36:20PM -0500, Bob Bagwill wrote: > Wouldn't it make sense for rsync to check for the existence of the > destination directory before creating the file list? It's a waste to > stat(2) thousands of files only to abort because the destination doesn't > exist. There are

Re: ssh & keep absolute local paths from --include-from=file remotely

2003-11-09 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:58:07AM +0100, Thomas Otto wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to do a IMHO rather trivial thing with rsync via ssh: > > I have some files under /etc and some under /home/thomas, I want to > rsync just these to a remote PC with a similar setup where they should > end up in t

Re: Smoother bandwidth limiting

2003-11-09 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 06:08:28PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > I'm getting more and more convinced that --bwlimit should > never have gotten into rsync. Bandwidth management belongs > at the system level or let it be done with a common > networking utility instead of at the individual utilities. T

ssh & keep absolute local paths from --include-from=file remotely

2003-11-09 Thread Thomas Otto
Hi! I am trying to do a IMHO rather trivial thing with rsync via ssh: I have some files under /etc and some under /home/thomas, I want to rsync just these to a remote PC with a similar setup where they should end up in the same dirs, and this with a single rsync call. Bascially 'tar --files-fr

Re: Smoother bandwidth limiting

2003-11-09 Thread Jason Haar
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 03:29, Jason Philbrook wrote: > I too like --bwlimit. It's not perfect, but it's so easy to adjust > backup/restore speed in the backup program. We use rsync primarily for > offsite backups, so it's great for planning bandwidth use over limited > capacity links. For normal eve

Rsync - expensive startup question

2003-11-09 Thread Cedric Puddy
Hi there, I'm using rsync with some large trees of files (on one disk, we have 30M files, for example, and a we might be copying say, 500k files in one tree. The file trees are reasonably balenced -- no single directory has thousands of files in it, for example. Our file system, at the moment,