[SOLVED] RE: Problems while transferring big files

> I'm coming back to this issue, which I did not have time to > go on further... > > One of the DSL lines has been ugpraded: > > Before = 5000/500 > Actual = 2/1000 [cut] > The conclusion is, there seems to be a "fixed timeout" which > happens at constant times. What can I do now? OK, I'

Buffer Cache Thrashing

Rsync thrashes my buffer cache when transfering large files. I see that some people worked on this problem about a year ago. Did they find a workable solution? I'm getting tired of everything slowing to zero while rsync grinds away. Josh Snyder -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid

Re: How many differs in rsync algorithm from Andrew Tridgell's thesis

Is there anyone can help me on this? On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 10:13 +0800, Daniel.Li wrote: > Dear List, > > I would like to take a look at rsync's algorithm. As newbie on this > algorithm, I just downloaded Andrew Tridgell's original thesis in 1999. > > So my question is "How many differs in rsyn

--remove-source-file problem

All, I'm having a problem with the rsync parameters -remove-source-files. I'm attempting to rsync files from a remote server (source). My target machine is Linux 2.6.9-67.ELsmp and my source machine is AIX 3. Rsync is version rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 on the target machine

Unable to transfer between win32 (interix) and FreeBSD

While transfering files from a win32 host here running interix aka SFU it keeps constantly failing with various errors see below. Both ends are running 3.0.5 on the same network. Also the transfer speeds are really slow, has anyone had this before and is there anything we can do to investigate th

Re: Help creating incremental backups using --backup-dir.

David, I haven't found any other file systems that directly support HFS meta data... however, you mentioned in your post trying the "mount a NAS based sparse file" approach but that it was unreliable. Honestly, I'd fix whatever on your network is making this unreliable - I use this method

rsync randomly and silently skips files

Hi, I'm using rsync to sync a custom production environment (binaries, scripts, config files) out to remote sites. The exact same command runs twice daily from cron. The command is basically: rsync -av --exclude somepath /prod_environ/ remotesite:/prod_environ/ Nothing too fancy IMO. And

rsync and quota in Linux

Hello all, I plan on using rsync to replicate user home dirs to another machine. hostA /home/userA --> hostB /home/userB that other machine is linux running quota. can I expect the quotas to be updated correctly on the receiving side ? thx Joao -- Please use reply-all for most replies to a

rsync windows acl

Hi @all! I want to backup Windows files to a Linux Server including the Windows ACLs. I found this at nabble.com http://www.nabble.com/Rsync-windows-acls-td21205816.html - On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 09:54

Re: Using rsync for a backup program but having trouble getting --exclude-from to work properly

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Thu 16 Apr 2009, Robert Parker wrote: > >> fromdir=/home/bob/ >> rsync --exclude-from="$excl" -a -b -vv --suffix="$suffix" $fromdir $todir > >> Here is the content of the exclude file >> >> /home/bob/.mozilla/firefox/ > > If you're passing

Re: Using rsync for a backup program but having trouble getting --exclude-from to work properly

On 15-Apr-2009, at 14:19, Robert Parker wrote: rsync --exclude-from="$excl" -a -b -vv --suffix="$suffix" $fromdir $todir /home/bob/.mozilla/firefox/ The / in the exclude-from is relative to the starting directory, not an absolute path. So what you are excluding is '$fromdir/home/ bob/.m

Re: Using rsync for a backup program but having trouble getting --exclude-from to work properly

On Thu 16 Apr 2009, Robert Parker wrote: > fromdir=/home/bob/ > rsync --exclude-from="$excl" -a -b -vv --suffix="$suffix" $fromdir $todir > Here is the content of the exclude file > > /home/bob/.mozilla/firefox/ If you're passing /home/bob/ as the source dir, then you have to remove /home/bob f