Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

2003-10-14 Thread Sviatoslav Sviridov
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:20:48 -0700 jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:57:37PM -0400, Jason M. Felice wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 05:18:00PM +0100, Andy Henson wrote: > > > I propose a new option: > > > --comp-file= > > > > > > allowing: > > > rsync -vvtPB --

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

2003-10-13 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:03:28PM +1000, Christopher Vance wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 06:54:02PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > >It isn't yet. The debian version of gzip might have the > >patch applied because it is an issue for the debian mirror > >sites but i don't know. I believe the gzip d

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

2003-10-13 Thread Christopher Vance
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 06:54:02PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: It isn't yet. The debian version of gzip might have the patch applied because it is an issue for the debian mirror sites but i don't know. I believe the gzip developers are considering applying the patch. Oh. That makes it mostly not-ye

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

2003-10-13 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:31:36AM +1000, Christopher Vance wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:20:48PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > >>It will never help with rsync-2.5.6.tar.gz vs. rsync-2.5.5.tar.gz > >>anyway, since any small change early in the stream will cause the entire > >>file to be encoded

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

2003-10-13 Thread Christopher Vance
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:20:48PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: It will never help with rsync-2.5.6.tar.gz vs. rsync-2.5.5.tar.gz anyway, since any small change early in the stream will cause the entire file to be encoded differently (side affect of how compression algorithms work). See the rsyncable p

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

2003-10-13 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:30:32PM -0700, Ben Escoto wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:43:35 -0400 > "Jason M. Felice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dirvish looks interesting. One of the requirements that I now realize I > > didn't write into the proposal was the ability to store only a single > >

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

2003-10-13 Thread Ben Escoto
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:43:35 -0400 "Jason M. Felice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dirvish looks interesting. One of the requirements that I now realize I > didn't write into the proposal was the ability to store only a single > copy of duplicate files... duplicate as determined by file contents, n

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

2003-10-13 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:57:37PM -0400, Jason M. Felice wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 05:18:00PM +0100, Andy Henson wrote: > > I propose a new option: > > --comp-file= > > > > allowing: > > rsync -vvtPB --comp-file=$BASE remote.host:$NEW . > > > > Specifying this for each file would be murd

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

2003-10-13 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:43:35PM -0400, Jason M. Felice wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:44:52AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > Try dirvish or one of the other backup systems already out > > there. > > dirvish looks interesting. One of the requirements that I now realize I > didn't write into

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

2003-10-13 Thread Jason M. Felice
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 05:18:00PM +0100, Andy Henson wrote: > I propose a new option: > --comp-file= > > allowing: > rsync -vvtPB --comp-file=$BASE remote.host:$NEW . > Specifying this for each file would be murder for my purposes, but I like the concept. I think there needs to be some sort of

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

2003-10-13 Thread Jason M. Felice
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:44:52AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > Try dirvish or one of the other backup systems already out > there. dirvish looks interesting. One of the requirements that I now realize I didn't write into the proposal was the ability to store only a single copy of duplicate files..

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

2003-10-13 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:57:36AM -0400, Jason M. Felice wrote: > Hi! > > Below is a link to a proposal I'm writing for two clients of ours who want an > Internet-based backup solution. I propose eleven "objectives" in it, > most of which are modifications to rsync. I'd like to contribute > the

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

2003-10-13 Thread Andy Henson
I agree version support should be added to rsync, indeed I was about to propose an extension, but I start from a very different point of view. We already use versioned files. For example, the rsync download is called rsync-2.5.6.tar.gz and the previous one is rsync-2.5.5.tar.gz. I agree some s