Re: Question About Rsync and Modification Times

2024-10-10 Thread Paul Slootman via rsync
On Wed 09 Oct 2024, McDowell, Blake via rsync wrote: > Linux servers one running TrueNAS-13.0-U6 and the other running > TrueNAS-13.0-U3.1. > > I connect to both on a Mac via smb over fiber. > > Using cp -a also updates the timestamp of the copied file to today and does > not back-date it to t

Re: Question About Rsync and Modification Times

2024-10-09 Thread McDowell, Blake via rsync
conservator/archivist, so I may be missing something obvious. -Blake From: Kevin Korb Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2024 at 15:01 To: McDowell, Blake , rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: Question About Rsync and Modification Times External Email - Exercise Caution That isn't how rsync s

Re: Question About Rsync and Modification Times

2024-10-09 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
a.org *Subject: *Re: Question About Rsync and Modification Times External Email - Exercise Caution You are using rsync -a which copies (preserves) the timestamp.  Meaning that rsync will copy the file then back-date it to the timestamp of the source file.  Most copying tools do not do this though cp

Re: Question About Rsync and Modification Times

2024-10-09 Thread McDowell, Blake via rsync
Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2024 at 14:45 To: rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: Question About Rsync and Modification Times External Email - Exercise Caution You are using rsync -a which copies (preserves) the timestamp. Meaning that rsync will copy the file then back-date it to the timestamp

Re: Question About Rsync and Modification Times

2024-10-09 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
You are using rsync -a which copies (preserves) the timestamp. Meaning that rsync will copy the file then back-date it to the timestamp of the source file. Most copying tools do not do this though cp's -a does it too. Note that your itemized output says that the timestamp is different meanin

Re: Question about rsync -uav dir1/. dir2/.: possib to link?

2021-09-04 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
Yes, cpio -l can be useful since cpio can easily operate on the output from the very capable find command. On 9/4/21 8:34 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > I was thinking --link-dest too. > > Sometimes this can be done with cpio too; check out the -pdlv options. > > On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 4:57 PM Ke

Re: Question about rsync -uav dir1/. dir2/.: possib to link?

2021-09-04 Thread Dan Stromberg via rsync
I was thinking --link-dest too. Sometimes this can be done with cpio too; check out the -pdlv options. On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 4:57 PM Kevin Korb via rsync wrote: > Rsync does almost everything cp does but since it is designed to network > it never got that feature. I was thinking maybe --link-

Re: Question about rsync -uav dir1/. dir2/.: possib to link?

2021-09-04 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
Rsync does almost everything cp does but since it is designed to network it never got that feature. I was thinking maybe --link-dest could be tortured into doing it but if it can I can't figure out how. BTW, you have some pointless dots in there. On 9/4/21 6:41 PM, L A Walsh via rsync wrote: > I

Re: question about rsync batch operation

2013-05-19 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Jason Keltz wrote: > As far as I understand, even though rsync is running on the client, the > server is trying to write the batch file locally? > No, the batch file is always output by whatever side is running the rsync command. You either need to specify a pat

RE: Question about rsync and BIG mirror

2006-03-06 Thread johan.boye
> Object: Re: Question about rsync and BIG mirror Thanks for all your answers and advices. My problem seems on the side of the 2MB line one time the whole 190GB data are synchronised. I will keep in touch and give some feedbacks. Thanks for all -- To unsubscribe or change options: ht

Re: Question about rsync and BIG mirror

2006-03-06 Thread Jamie Lokier
Shachar Shemesh wrote: > >While you're there, one little trick I've found that speeds up > >scanning large directory hierarchies is to stat() or open() entries in > >inode-number order. For some filesystems it makes no difference, but > >for others it reduces the average disk seek time as on many

Re: Question about rsync and BIG mirror

2006-03-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Jamie Lokier wrote: >While you're there, one little trick I've found that speeds up >scanning large directory hierarchies is to stat() or open() entries in >inode-number order. For some filesystems it makes no difference, but >for others it reduces the average disk seek time as on many common >fi

Re: Question about rsync and BIG mirror

2006-03-06 Thread Jamie Lokier
Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:18:45PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > In fact, I know of at least one place where they don't use rsync because > > they don't have enough RAM+SWAP to hold the list of files in memory. > > > > As far as future directions for rsync, I think this

Re: Question about rsync and BIG mirror

2006-03-06 Thread Jamie Lokier
Shachar Shemesh wrote: > >Hmm. My home directory, on my laptop (a mere 60GB disk), does contain > >millions of files, and it takes about 20 minutes to build the list on > >a good day. 100Mbps network, but it's I/O bound not network bound. > > > >It looks a lot like the number of files is more sig

Re: Question about rsync and BIG mirror

2006-03-06 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:18:45PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > In fact, I know of at least one place where they don't use rsync because > they don't have enough RAM+SWAP to hold the list of files in memory. > > As far as future directions for rsync, I think this is the major place > where rsyn

Re: Question about rsync and BIG mirror

2006-03-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Jamie Lokier wrote: >Hmm. My home directory, on my laptop (a mere 60GB disk), does contain >millions of files, and it takes about 20 minutes to build the list on >a good day. 100Mbps network, but it's I/O bound not network bound. > >It looks a lot like the number of files is more significant tha

Re: Question about rsync and BIG mirror

2006-03-06 Thread Jamie Lokier
jp wrote: > 100gb of 4-40MB files sounds like my home PC full of digital photos I've > taken. It backs up to a linux PC right beside it with rsync. I don't > really call it that big a project for rsync. Big things for rsync are > millions of files. At 100mbps, it takes a few seconds to build the

Re: Question about rsync and BIG mirror

2006-03-06 Thread jp
100gb of 4-40MB files sounds like my home PC full of digital photos I've taken. It backs up to a linux PC right beside it with rsync. I don't really call it that big a project for rsync. Big things for rsync are millions of files. At 100mbps, it takes a few seconds to build the list. I use the

RE: Question about rsync and BIG mirror

2006-03-03 Thread Tony
Flames invited if I'm wrong on any of this, but: Some (long overdue) backups indicate that network speed should be much more important than cpu speed. Your results will depend heavily on your exact mix and I cannot think of any reasonable way to quantify it. That said, this may help give you a clu

Re: Question about rsync and BIG mirror

2006-03-03 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Fri, 2006-03-03 08:02:55 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > // I wonder if this message has been posted, so I sent it again // It was, but nobody answered yet. > I'm preparing a plan for a production mode in my company: we need to > mirror around 100GB of data trough a spe

Re: Question about rsync and BIG mirror

2006-03-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello, > > So: each night, from 0:00am to maximum 7:00am, the server will have to >check the 100Go of files and see what files have been modified, then, >upload them to the clients. Each file is around 4MB to 40MB in average. > > Are the clients what you call the "mir

Re: Question About Rsync on HP-UX

2003-10-24 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 08:21:34PM -0500, Chao,Eisen R. wrote: > Hi All: > > > I thought the default behaviour for Rsync was that it would only > overwrite > destination files that have a lesser date than the source file. Instead No. Rsync _replaces_ the destination file. And if --times is ena

Re: Question About Rsync on HP-UX

2003-10-23 Thread Chao,Eisen R.
Hi All: I thought the default behaviour for Rsync was that it would only overwrite destination files that have a lesser date than the source file. Instead I have this: Source [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/csapps115/IBMHTTPD/content-external/cna/html/meet]: ls -al meet.html

Re: Question about rsync

2002-09-17 Thread tim . conway
Most commonly, such an error means that the path line for the module in question is invalid. Sometimes, it means the server system doesn't support chroot. check your rsyncd.conf, first. Tim Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] 303.682.4917 office, 303.921.0301 cell Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC 1880