Re: rsync as a backup solution

2002-05-07 Thread Sylvain COUTANT
I must confirm. I'm currently using rsync to backup several Gb of dynamic files every night. It works. It just prints a message to stderr for unreadable files (those who were moved/deleted between the file list creation and the real file copy). I get the backup report on my email every day and I

Re(2): How to copy 1,000,000,000 files efficiently

2001-05-07 Thread SYLVAIN . COUTANT
My own tests on this subject (as I face the same situation) were done with 600K files in the same dir structure, having 6 subdirs with 100K files each (I expect I'll need to handle more than 5M with our increasing production rates). I found that a simple 'find . -type f| wc -l' would take up t

Re: Rsync freezing problem

2001-03-30 Thread SYLVAIN . COUTANT
> I've noticed that the -v can bring some freezing of rsync. > > The test I've made , have shown that the more "v". I use, the more > problems happend. > > I'am now using this command without problem any more > rsync -axW --progress --stat --delete --exclude \"lost+found\" /src/ > /target/ > >

Re(2): High volumes and unexpected EOF in read_timeout

2001-03-06 Thread SYLVAIN . COUTANT
> On Tuesday 06 March 2001 13:09, you wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm new to the mailing list.I run into troubles trying to sync servers with > > millions of files ... did anyone had any previous experience on this > > subject ? > > > > In most cases, it ends with something like : "unexpected EOF i

High volumes and unexpected EOF in read_timeout

2001-03-06 Thread SYLVAIN . COUTANT
Hi all, I'm new to the mailing list.I run into troubles trying to sync servers with millions of files ... did anyone had any previous experience on this subject ? In most cases, it ends with something like : "unexpected EOF in read_timeout". The servers I'm trying to sync have between 1 and 3 m