Re: Using the rsync checksums for handling large logfiles.

2003-11-17 Thread Alun
jw schultz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The rsync protocol wouldn't lend itself to this. Overall, > rsync is going to be less efficient than a utility that > simply sends what needs to be appended to reach the same > length. > > I'd have the receiver send the

Re: Using the rsync checksums for handling large logfiles.

2003-11-17 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:30:32PM +, Alun wrote: > > Dear all, > > I've only just joined this list, but I can't find any mention of this > idea anywhere else, so I thought I'd just post here before getting too > deep into programming and possibly reinventing the wheel. > > Here at Aber, we

Re: Using the rsync checksums for handling large logfiles.

2003-11-17 Thread Alun
Kurt Roeckx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Ever considered using syslog, and sending all data to the central > log server? Thanks for the suggestion, but standard syslog is UDP and so not reliable (I know about syslog-tng and friends) and some of the logs that w

Re: Using the rsync checksums for handling large logfiles.

2003-11-14 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:30:32PM +, Alun wrote: > > Here at Aber, we have around 30 unix and linux servers doing core services. > Each one is maintaining its own logfiles and, for various reasons, we want to > keep these on the servers' local disks, with each server having its own log > rot