multiple sources and excludes

2011-10-18 Thread neilsort-rs...@yahoo.com
I have two folders that I need to merge onto a remote host. The sources contain conflicting files, and I'm trying to rsolve these conflicts using per-directory filter rules. However, it seems as if these rule files are merged together into one, instead of being treated separately for each dire

Re: rsync compares all files again and again

2011-10-18 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ext[34]'s dirindex feature does help but only in that it allows rsync and any other program to read a large directory faster. On 10/18/11 13:41, Eric Shubert wrote: > On 10/14/2011 02:13 AM, Frank Steiner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> we do a 1:1 backup from ou

Re: rsync compares all files again and again

2011-10-18 Thread Eric Shubert
On 10/14/2011 02:13 AM, Frank Steiner wrote: Hi, we do a 1:1 backup from our main raid to a backup raid every night with rsync -a --delete /mnt/raid1/ /mnt/raid2 rsync is 3.09, filesystems are ext3, OS is SLES 11 SP1. The rsync process takes several hours, even if no file has changed at all.