Re: help troubleshooting inconsistencies in back up sizes

2005-02-04 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:14:20PM -0500, gauze wrote: > what is df measuring I wonder ... Keep in mind that df reports all the size used for a file, including wasted space, which can result in a different amount for the same file on a different filesystem. Also, directories often differ in size.

Re: help troubleshooting inconsistencies in back up sizes

2005-02-04 Thread gauze
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, gaw zay wrote: > On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, John Van Essen wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, gaw zay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > To examine the difference between hierarchies, do this on each server > > (replacing N with a number): > > > > find /mailhome -ls | sort +10 >/t

Re: [patch] add "--ignore" option

2005-02-04 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:16:59PM +, Matthew Kirkwood wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Wayne Davison wrote: > > -f "-s *.no_send" -f "-r *.no_delete" -f "- *.no_send+no_delete" > > Does that give any additional useful behaviour? Sure. Having a rule be server-side only allows you to mark ju

Re: rsync -auIn not doing what I expect (rsync 2.6.3)

2005-02-04 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:41:28AM -0800, Bart Brashers wrote: > The "-I" tells rsync to ignore the timestamps (the corrupt files still > have old timestamps) and the file sizes (the corrupt files are the same > size as the backup non-corrupt files) and do the checksums to determine > which files n

Re: rsync -auIn not doing what I expect (rsync 2.6.3)

2005-02-04 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Bart Brashers wrote: Some of my files recently became corrupted due to disk I/O errors (bad SCSI terminator). I've fixed my I/O errors, run fsck, and am now wanting to restore from my rsync backup. However, some time has passed, and users have continued working, creating ne

rsync -auIn not doing what I expect (rsync 2.6.3)

2005-02-04 Thread Bart Brashers
Hi, Some of my files recently became corrupted due to disk I/O errors (bad SCSI terminator). I've fixed my I/O errors, run fsck, and am now wanting to restore from my rsync backup. However, some time has passed, and users have continued working, creating new files, in some cases with the same

Re: help troubleshooting inconsistencies in back up sizes

2005-02-04 Thread gaw zay
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, John Van Essen wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, gaw zay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I use this shell script to back up: > > > > for i in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z `seq 0 9`; do > > /usr/local/bin/rsync -a -z -W --delete /mailhome/$i/ [EMA

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-04 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2005-02-04 11:51:20 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > What distro is this? If it's Debian, gzip has an option called > "--rsyncable". This makes changes to the uncompressed file local in the This is a debian-only patch which doesn't change the gzip version. :-( Best regards Martin --

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-04 Thread Harald Dunkel
Shachar Shemesh wrote: What distro is this? If it's Debian, gzip has an option called "--rsyncable". This makes changes to the uncompressed file local in the compressed file. Of course it is Debian. Following your hint I have found http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/ Many thanx Harri -- To u

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, Are there any tricks known to let rsync operate on huge tar files? I've got a local tar file (e.g. 2GByte uncompressed) that is rebuilt each night (with just some tiny changes, of course), and I would like to update the remote copies of this file without extracting th

rsync huge tar files

2005-02-04 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Are there any tricks known to let rsync operate on huge tar files? I've got a local tar file (e.g. 2GByte uncompressed) that is rebuilt each night (with just some tiny changes, of course), and I would like to update the remote copies of this file without extracting the tar files into temp