Re: Fwd: --link-dest does not appear to be linking on Cygwin

2012-06-05 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:18:24 +0200 Clint Olsen wrote: > Ok, itemize changes prints out some info for each file, and it looks like: ... > I did a quick search on this switch and someone was bitching that the > fields were not easy to decipher w/o reading the source code :) Wrong: the --itemize-cha

Re: Fwd: --link-dest does not appear to be linking on Cygwin

2012-06-05 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If rsync thinks the permissions are different and you told it to preserve the permissions then it can't hard link. The permissions are on the actual file not the links so it can't store a file with 2 sets of permissions without storing 2 copies of the

Re: Fwd: --link-dest does not appear to be linking on Cygwin

2012-06-05 Thread Clint Olsen
Ok, itemize changes prints out some info for each file, and it looks like: cf...p. Nancy/Favorites/Links/desktop.ini cf...p. Nancy/Favorites/Links/latin music.url cd...p. Nancy/Favorites/Microsoft Websites/ I did a quick search on this switch and someone was bitching that the fields w

Re: Fwd: --link-dest does not appear to be linking on Cygwin

2012-06-05 Thread Clint Olsen
Hi: I will try the itemize switch as you suggested, thanks... I have tested this on both the Windows box and the NAS. The inode numbers come back differently on Cygwin but the NAS sees them as the same: Nancy@macki /cygdrive/f/macki/test $ ls -ali total 1048576 3297336581512553257 drwxr-xr-x 1

Re: Fwd: --link-dest does not appear to be linking on Cygwin

2012-06-05 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --itemize-changes would be the first place to start. Also, see if you can make a hard link on your NAS. Just because the underlying ext4 supports it doesn't mean that your network mount does. Try something like: cd /cygdrive/f/macki touch testfil

Fwd: --link-dest does not appear to be linking on Cygwin

2012-06-05 Thread Clint Olsen
Hi: I have attempted to following some instructions to use --link-dest in order to preserve space for multiple backups. I'm using rsync on Cygwin with a NAS (ext4) which does support hard-links on the filesystem. I've written a short program that does attempt to create a hard-link on this NAS from

[Bug 8979] New: rsync daemon: High load while skipping hardlinks

2012-06-05 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8979 Summary: rsync daemon: High load while skipping hardlinks Product: rsync Version: 3.0.5 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5