Re: rsync 2.4.6 hangs.

2001-07-10 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago Steve Ladendorf wrote:" > variety of conditions, one of which I seem to be having. We use rsync to > update remote servers over night. Each system syncs with a master server > holding around 4.0 gig of data. Normally there is very little change on > the master so rsync o

Re: rsync between partitions

2001-04-13 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:" > Actually, I've got one for you, though. Since there are no insertions, you can use >dd on both ends, through rsh (or ssh). use it with skip, seek, conv=notrunc, >count=1, and some appropriate block size (the block size of the filesystems, may

Re: rsync between partitions

2001-04-13 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago Dave Dykstra wrote:" > a small modification to the rsync source. You could delete the check > for !S_ISREG in generator.c where it prints "skipping non-regular file", There's one in skip_file. That takes notice of "always_checksum" if it's a regular file. Fine. I do

Re: rsync between partitions

2001-04-13 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago Dave Dykstra wrote:" > This has been asked for before, but the main problem is that rsync builds a > temporary file and then moves it into place when finished. If you're Thanks for the reply. Can you meet me halfway and add in a command line option to do it by overwritin

Re: rsync between partitions

2001-04-13 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:" > You've got two choices. Hack the code to do the updates in-place, > or copy the disk images to a filesystem, and treat them as files. Mmm ... partitions too large, I fear. Hacking the code seems the better option. But I need to know if only pa

Re: rsync between partitions

2001-04-13 Thread Peter T. Breuer
> >Is there any way to rsync between raw partitions? > You are better off syncing the filesystems on top, if you can. That's not a bad idea, but there may be none .. or at least it may not be consistent, and hence not mountable. I am talking about resyncing two halves of a raid1 mirror. The halv

rsync between partitions

2001-04-13 Thread Peter T. Breuer
Is there any way to rsync between raw partitions? (I just tried with 2.3.1 and 2.4.6, and no go in my experiment). What I want is for every block or group of blocks to be checksummed, and those with non-matching checksums to be updated. Any suggestions? I'm happy to hack the code. Peter

Re: rsync hangs with FreeSwan

2000-12-27 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:" > Using FreeSwan 1.5 to connect 2 networks and rsync 2.4.6 to transport > files between 2 Linux boxes (RH6.1/kernel 2.2.17 and 2.2.14) > > On small transfers of a couple of dozen files, all is sweet. When a lot > of files are involved, it hangs fo

Re: rsync hanging or is something else going on?

2000-10-17 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago Dave Dykstra wrote:" > On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 04:34:59PM +0200, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > > To be clear, both machines are using the same rsync 2.4.6 as before. > > Both are linux libc5 machines with 128MB of ram, and P2 class. The only > >

Re: rsync hanging or is something else going on?

2000-10-17 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago Dave Dykstra wrote:" > On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 04:34:59PM +0200, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > > "A month of sundays ago Eric Whiting wrote:" > Thanks for that report, it is good to have a datapoint indicating that it > is still required to

Re: rsync hanging or is something else going on?

2000-10-17 Thread Peter T. Breuer
"A month of sundays ago Eric Whiting wrote:" > This might not be the info needed for proper debug, but it is a start. > I changed back to 2.4.6 last night and got a hang on a Solaris/Solaris Following hints in this group over the last few days, I just recompiled ssh without the PIPES config optio