Re: Create "thincopy": with fileystem metadata only?

2025-02-18 Thread Peter B. via rsync
Dear Stein, Thanks for the suggestions and link to your patch. Indeed it's quite related to scenarios I'm having with large scale audiovisual collection synchronizations in memory institutions. My request here on this list however goes beyond "something I can get to work in my setup": Even t

Re: Create "thincopy": with fileystem metadata only?

2025-02-15 Thread Peter B. via rsync
7;m really professionally interested in such a feature, as it would greatly make our lives in the galleries-libraries-archives-museums (GLAM) world :D Thank you very much in advance! Peter B. On 11.12.24 17:17, Peter B. via rsync wrote: On 12/10/24 21:15, Roland Kletzing wrote: hello, that

Re: Create "thincopy": with fileystem metadata only?

2024-12-11 Thread Peter B. via rsync
Dear Roland, On 12/10/24 21:15, Roland Kletzing wrote: hello, that sounds interesting - just one question:  what about file size? is it always zero or is it set to the original size and the file contents are empty ? The filesize (IMO) should stay 0 bytes, since the file actually /is/ empty. I

Create "thincopy": with fileystem metadata only?

2024-12-10 Thread Peter B. via rsync
Hi everyone :) I'm professionally and seriously working with extended filesystem attributes (xattrs) for search/retrieval of data. I am making a "thincopy" of large data trees, like this: `$ cp --attributes-only --preserve=all $(SOURCE) $(TARGET)` Is there a way to do this with rsync? I'm a

Re: on rsync.samba.org, there's an SSL-certificate pointing to a berlin dancer website?

2024-12-10 Thread Peter B. via rsync
On 12/9/24 23:46, Perry Hutchison wrote: Sounds as if the catb.org domain registration expired and got bought by someone unrelated to the original owner. The wonder is that the previous content is still there. It seems that "catb.org" really is Eric's personal site, and the issue is solely wh

on rsync.samba.org, there's an SSL-certificate pointing to a berlin dancer website?

2024-12-09 Thread Peter B. via rsync
Hi everyone :) On the [official website regarding rsync mailing lists](https://rsync.samba.org/lists.html), the text contains a link: "but please [read this before posting]" Which points to: https://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Which throws a "bad_domain_error" SSL error, list

rsync as a de-duplication-only tool, using --link-dest

2024-05-01 Thread B via rsync
Recently I was thinking about --link-dest= and if it was possible to use rsync to de-duplicate two nearly-identical directory structures. Normally I would use a tool like hardlink, jdupes, or rdfind, but in this case the files are huge and numerous, so hashing them would take forever. I did a

Re: Rsync checksum issue

2020-12-15 Thread Laurent B via rsync
, 2020 at 3:25 AM Laurent B via rsync mailto:rsync@lists.samba.org>> wrote: Dear all, I'm encountering a problem with one of my backup. For some files, the checksum calculation is failing leading to the following error : It sounds a little like a bug, but perhaps if yo

Rsync checksum issue

2020-12-15 Thread Laurent B via rsync
Dear all, I'm encountering a problem with one of my backup. For some files, the checksum calculation is failing leading to the following error : For instance: >f. Avion/avion-été-2020/pesee-log-nav-carbu.ods WARNING: Avion/avion-été-2020/pesee-log-nav-carbu.ods failed verification -