Re: Can I get rsync to delete missing files first?

2009-09-16 Thread Allistar
Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 14:41 +1200, Allistar wrote: >> I am backing up a remove partition which is 38Gb onto a local partition >> which is 40Gb. Rsync is complaining that I have run out of disk space on >> the local partition, and I can tell that this would not happen if loc

Re: Can I get rsync to delete missing files first?

2009-09-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 14:41 +1200, Allistar wrote: > I am backing up a remove partition which is 38Gb onto a local partition > which is 40Gb. Rsync is complaining that I have run out of disk space on > the local partition, and I can tell that this would not happen if local > files that are missing

Re: Can I get rsync to delete missing files first?

2009-09-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 14:41 +1200, Allistar wrote: > I am backing up a remove partition which is 38Gb onto a local partition > which is 40Gb. Rsync is complaining that I have run out of disk space on > the local partition, and I can tell that this would not happen if local > files that are missing

Can I get rsync to delete missing files first?

2009-09-16 Thread Allistar
I am backing up a remove partition which is 38Gb onto a local partition which is 40Gb. Rsync is complaining that I have run out of disk space on the local partition, and I can tell that this would not happen if local files that are missing in the remote system were deleted BEFORE copying down new f

Re: time variable throttling rsync traffic

2009-09-16 Thread Andrew Gideon
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:01:04 +, Andrew Gideon wrote: > It can also potentially be extended in other directions. For one crazy > example, the utility (or some other utility that modifies the first > utilities configuration) could listen on a port for messages from - > presumably - the receivin

Re: Proposed tweaks

2009-09-16 Thread Lee Winter
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > Lee, > > Both of your proposals have been discussed before (see below), Good. > but > neither has been taken very far because they would both involve large > changes to rsync. The delta computations are addressed below. Externalizing the

Re: Status of running rsync

2009-09-16 Thread Fabian Cenedese
At 22:02 15.09.2009 +, Andrew Gideon wrote: >I find lsof very informative with respect to rsync's status. That's a good one, that really helps. Thanks bye Fabi -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.sam