Re: rsync -rcv printing out filenames when content identical

2011-01-22 Thread Mikolaj Kucharski
I'm suing -n on purposes to see what will happen. Not sure did I express myself clearly. When using -n and reaparing dry run for my direcotories sometimes rsync shows that only INBOX has some differences and sometimes INBOX and Jira. Not sure was that clear in my previous email. -- best regards q

rsync -rcv printing out filenames when content identical

2011-01-22 Thread Mikolaj Kucharski
Hi, I'm heavly relying on rsync -nvrc during my day-to-day work in UNIX-like enviroment. I'm using rsync for few years now and today I've found a situation which I do not understand. I have two directories with few maildirs in it. Each maildir containg some emails. I'm testing scripts which I wro

Re: Issue with bwlimit after resuming a partial transfer due to a communication break

2011-01-22 Thread Alistair Dsouza
Thanks Paul and Wayne. The behaviour is clear now. Regards, Alistair On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Alistair Dsouza wrote: > >> Literal data: 6,496 bytes >> > > That is how much literal data rsync had to send to finish the file, so it

Re: Issue with bwlimit after resuming a partial transfer due to a communication break

2011-01-22 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Alistair Dsouza wrote: > Literal data: 6,496 bytes > That is how much literal data rsync had to send to finish the file, so it is not surprising that it finished quickly. See also the Total bytes received (about 40K), so it would not be surprising to have a 10K/s

Re: Issue with bwlimit after resuming a partial transfer due to a communication break

2011-01-22 Thread Alistair Dsouza
Hi Paul, Thanks for your inputs. I think I've got an idea of whats taking place. Please see if what I have mentioned makes sense. The reason file transfer is taking a few secs in the partial transfer case is cause the file is highly compressible and rsync is using that to transfer less bytes to r