Re: rsync algorithm

2010-07-21 Thread hce
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:43 PM, hce wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:35 PM,   wrote: >> How many of the files are changing? > > Not many. > >> If the file size and times haven't change then rsync won't be comparing >> things and calculating checksums.  When rsync sees that a file has changed

Re: rsync algorithm

2010-07-21 Thread hce
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:35 PM, wrote: > How many of the files are changing? Not many. > If the file size and times haven't change then rsync won't be comparing > things and calculating checksums.  When rsync sees that a file has changed > then it compares checksums of the chunks to reduce

Re: How to block this fiel name from being transfered via rsync?

2010-07-21 Thread Henri Shustak
>> Are you specifying this lines in an excludes file? >> > yes -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Behavioral differences between versions.

2010-07-21 Thread Jeff Cleverley
Greetings, We are upgrading systems in our lab from rhel4 to rhel5. We've noticed a number of differences in behavior while using the same arguments on the same data set. We get different sent and received counts. We also had one case with some data corruption that was only fixed after telling

Re: --compare-dest weirdness

2010-07-21 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > rsync with --link-dest so that all files that aren't changed are > hardlinked. > > Then to 'tar' all changed or new files you want a list of files without > hardlinks as those are the files that where changed or new(*): > find -type f -links 1

Re: --compare-dest weirdness

2010-07-21 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
On 21.07.2010 10:22, Kevin Murray wrote: > Hi Henri > > Thanks very much. LBackup looks good, but i need a solution which only > copies files which have changed, and does not link the others, as the > folder is destined for a tar archive. Also, the copied files must be > fully functional, i.e. mus