rsync seems to overwhelm a failing hard disk

be expected? Is there a way to make rsync more gentle on a fragile disk? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe

Re: rsync equivalent of 'cp -al' ?

On 18/06/13 17:35, Kevin Korb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you make a link to a link you make a link to all of its links. The effect is the same. Good point -- I hadn't thought of it like that. Thanks for the tip. cheers Chris On 06/18/13 12:27, Chris D

Re: rsync equivalent of 'cp -al' ?

ource directory. Does that make sense? cheers Chris On 06/18/13 11:49, Chris Dennis wrote: On 18/06/13 15:02, Kevin Korb wrote: rsync -vai --lin-dest=/path/to/source/ /path/to/source/ /path/to/target/ Note that if you try it with relative paths the link-dest will be relative to the sourc

Re: rsync equivalent of 'cp -al' ?

that --link-dest needed a relative path. This works for me: rsync -Haxv --stats --link-dest ../dir1 dir1/ dir2 The / on the end of the second dir1 is, of course, essential. cheers Chris On 06/18/13 09:39, Chris Dennis wrote: Hello rsync people I thought I knew how to use rsync, but I can&#

rsync equivalent of 'cp -al' ?

rpart in dir1. Why not just use cp? Because I want to be able to do it as a user who has sudo permission to run rsync but not cp. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please use reply-all for most replies to

Re: speedup is always 0.99

Grant If either of the disks is formatted with FAT, then you'll need --modify-window=1 -- see the man page or http://serverfault.com/questions/54949/how-can-i-use-rsync-with-a-fat-file-system cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge,

Re: --list-only ordering

On 17/12/12 17:09, Paul Slootman wrote: On Mon 17 Dec 2012, Chris Dennis wrote: I've noticed an apparent inconsistency in the ordering of output from the --list-only option. For example: $ ls d1 d2 d2-x d3 f1 f2 f2-x f3 $ rsync --list-only . drwxr-xr-x4096 20

--list-only ordering

I rely on the output staying the same in the future? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.

Re: Brandysnap -- a new rsync-based snapshot management script

page? Yes, that would be great. Depending upon the license you release Brandysnap under, perhaps in the future Brandysnap functionality could be incorporated into the LBackup project? It's GPL'd -- share and enjoy! cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden..

Brandysnap -- a new rsync-based snapshot management script

ot use it for anything important (yet). Brandysnap can be downloaded from GitHub at https://github.com/StarsoftAnalysis/brandysnap where you can follow its development and read more details. Hopefully it will prove useful. I look forward to hearing comments and ideas. cheers Chris

Re: keep 2 dirs in sync

aming files and deleting files on *either* host. You may want to investigate unison, which is designed for such usage. Or syncany -- www.syncany.org cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please use reply-all for

rsync 3.0.7 hangs with unreadable hard-links files

c(543) [sender=3.0.7] -- If this is not a known bug, then hopefully this information will be of use. regards Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please us