Re: rsync behavior on copy-on-write filesystems

2014-10-29 Thread Allen Supynuk
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Re: rsync behavior on copy-on-write filesystems

2013-05-22 Thread Allen Supynuk
very nice and I expect it to save 10's of GB per archive going forward. Kevin was right. --whole-file was the default when source and destination are specified as local paths. On 5/22/13, Allen Supynuk wrote: > Kevin, > > I will try again over a remote connection to see i

Re: rsync behavior on copy-on-write filesystems

2013-05-22 Thread Allen Supynuk
ote: > On Tue 21 May 2013, Allen Supynuk wrote: >> >> ## 1) Start with an empty filesystem >> >> $ df -h . > > Note that you need to be using "btrfs filesystem df ." > for reliable numbers; the normal df does not take into account > background cleanups

rsync behavior on copy-on-write filesystems

2013-05-21 Thread Allen Supynuk
I have been doing some experiments with rsync on btrfs, a copy-on-write file system that is approaching or having just achieved production-ready status depending on your requirements. For my purposes the reliability appears by almost all accounts to be there, and the compression alone makes it ver

Re: Problems with directories containing spaces in name

2013-03-02 Thread Allen Supynuk
This looks like a shell issue to me. Try > rsync "root@192.168.101.53:/Volumes/WD-Daten/XserveMirror/Satz/Akzidenzen\ > 2012/" "/Volumes/PromiseRAID/Satz/Akzidenzen 2012" 2>&1 And > rsync "root@192.168.101.53:'/Volumes/WD-Daten/XserveMirror/Satz/Akzidenzen > 2012/'" "/Volumes/PromiseRAID/S

Re: Does rsync need a --ignore-unreadable-files option?

2013-02-02 Thread Allen Supynuk
with a warning instead of stop part way thru with an error. I realize that the current behavior is the correct default. -Allen Sent from my iPad On Feb 2, 2013, at 11:09, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > > Hi. > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:08:13 +0100 Allen Supynuk wrote: &

Re: Does rsync need a --ignore-unreadable-files option?

2013-01-11 Thread Allen Supynuk
Will do. On 1/11/13, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 01/11/2013 09:08:52 AM, Allen Supynuk wrote: >> > While you're at it, why not a more generic >> > --ignore-errno foo >> > where foo is (a defined subset of) the Posix error numbers >> > listed in errno(3).

Re: Does rsync need a --ignore-unreadable-files option?

2013-01-11 Thread Allen Supynuk
> While you're at it, why not a more generic > --ignore-errno foo > where foo is (a defined subset of) the Posix error numbers > listed in errno(3). The names, alternately, could be > used. > > So your application would use > > --ignore-errno EACCES Karl, I love this suggestion, and will do it t

Re: Does rsync need a --ignore-unreadable-files option?

2013-01-11 Thread Allen Supynuk
> [..] Rsync does > continue after it encounters a permission denied error. It just can't > copy that particular file/directory but it will continue on through > the tree. I know it continues, but it gives a non-zero return code (23) that indicates that errors occurred. The error code indicates a

Does rsync need a --ignore-unreadable-files option?

2013-01-10 Thread Allen Supynuk
I work on software that archives gigabytes of files to multiple sites. Occasionally one or two files have no read permissions: % ls -l dir/foo --w---+ 1 abcserve myusers 11222 Jan 10 03:14 The error message is: rsync: send_files failed to open "/dir/foo" (in xxx): Permission denied (13) rsy