Announce: rsync fadvise (cache dropping) patch updated

2007-05-06 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi List, I have updated my rsync fadvise patch which stops rsync from ousting all your other data from cache when running large jobs. I have also written an article about the whole issue. http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise.html cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15

RE: Using --remove-source-files with backup?

2007-05-06 Thread ScottZ
Many, Many Thanks for this Matt! Seems to be working great so far. Just one question though. My initial tests with --backup-dir and -b had just the file being backed up to the specified dir. With --source-backup the tree structure of the original source file is also being included in the --b

Re: Using --remove-source-files with backup?

2007-05-06 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 5/6/07, Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The attached patch to rsync 2.6.9 adds a --source-backup option that backs up removed source files. Oops, I made a typo in the addition to the man page. The fixed patch is attached. Matt This patch to rsync 2.6.9 adds a --source-backup opti

Re: Using --remove-source-files with backup?

2007-05-06 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 5/4/07, ScottZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --remove-source-files works fine for this. An issue has come up in that I need to be able to backup the removed local source files as well. I think the simplest way to accomplish this is to make a modified version of rsync that supports backing up

Re: --copy-links and multi-process

2007-05-06 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 5/6/07, Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I noticed that when I rsync somethings with option:"--copy-links", system will create two process that with the same name(different PR value). Is that normal? By PR you mean the process ID, right? Yes, it's normal to have two or even three processe

Re: rsync --delete-existing needed

2007-05-06 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 5/5/07, Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you have subdirectories to be killed: find . -type d -empty -exec rmdir {}\; You have to run that a few times (One time for each deepth-level), and don't worry about the 'No such file or directory' warnings that it will spit for e

--copy-links and multi-process

2007-05-06 Thread Marco
Hi, I'm a user of rsync, rsync is VERY cool! I noticed that when I rsync somethings with option:"--copy-links", system will create two process that with the same name(different PR value). Is that normal? Thank you!! -- LinuX Power -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/