Patch for rsyncable zlib with new rolling checksum

2005-02-17 Thread Kevin Day
Hi all- My test results so far indicate a pretty decent improvement in overall rsync performance when using a slightly more sophisticated checksum calculation. The attached patch has the required changes (in hindsight, I should have compressed this using zlib with the new algorithm :-) ). Some

[Bug 2357] error when compiling rsync under Windows Services for Unix

2005-02-17 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2357 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Additional Comments

Re: Incremental Backups

2005-02-17 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:20:57PM -0600, Chris McKeever wrote: > so the chain goes > > hardlink a mirror directory to a new folder > rsync live data to a mirror directory > deleted files between the mirror/live data are then persistant in the > hardlinked daily directories Doing this can tweak t

Wooops - rsyncable patch had a default parameter mistake in it

2005-02-17 Thread Kevin Day
RSync-   Sorry about that.  I accidentally reversed the default values I had specified for the window size and the reset block size.  This only effects the outcome if you accept all default values, and don't initialize with your own.   The correct default values in the deflate.c file (line

Re: Incremental Backups

2005-02-17 Thread Hans-Juergen Beie
at 17.02.2005 2:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read the following hint at: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/#Incremental mv backup.0 backup.1 rsync -a --delete --link-dest=../backup.1 source_directory/ backup.0/ I simply want to maintain a dated backup of a server so that I could

Re: Incremental Backups

2005-02-17 Thread Chris McKeever
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:02:07 -0800, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:24:54PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It seems that this method would not use terribly much space in terms of > > duplicating files, however I am not sure of the --delete portion > > In

[Bug 2357] New: error when compiling rsync under Windows Services for Unix

2005-02-17 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2357 Summary: error when compiling rsync under Windows Services for Unix Product: rsync Version: 2.6.4 Platform: All OS/Version: Windows XP Status: NEW Severity:

[Bug 2357] error when compiling rsync under Windows Services for Unix

2005-02-17 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2357 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-02-17 11:09 --- What I meant to ask was, can this be automatically determined somehow so other users of Windows Services for Unix don't have to hack flist.c like I did? -- Configure b

Re: Incremental Backups

2005-02-17 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:24:54PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It seems that this method would not use terribly much space in terms of > duplicating files, however I am not sure of the --delete portion In your command sequence, you are (properly) moving the existing hierarchy of files out o

Re: Incremental Backups

2005-02-17 Thread Chris McKeever
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:20:53 +0100, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed 16 Feb 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I simply want to maintain a dated backup of a server so that I could > > always go back to a certain date. I would like to keep this structure > > for each day for th

How to increase the data rate in transferring the files using rsync

2005-02-17 Thread sanalkumar.siva
Title: Message Hi,       We have developed a backup software by using rsync which syncs the data between Windows (mainly Win2k ) machine and Linux machine.   For Windows, we are using CYGWIN rsync software version 2.6.2 and for Linux, we are using rsync software version 2.6.3.   It takes ar

Re: Incremental Backups

2005-02-17 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 16 Feb 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I simply want to maintain a dated backup of a server so that I could > always go back to a certain date. I would like to keep this structure > for each day for the last seven days, then one weekly snapshot for each > week in the month and then e