Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-08 Thread Harald Dunkel
Chris Shoemaker wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:35:51AM -0700, Tim Conway wrote: If it is, as you say, uncompressed, rsync will work on it as-is, finding and sending the changes. That was exactly my first thought, but I think he was meaning to say that the file's contents were 2GB when uncompre

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-08 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:35:51AM -0700, Tim Conway wrote: > If it is, as you say, uncompressed, rsync will work on it as-is, finding > and sending the changes. That was exactly my first thought, but I think he was meaning to say that the file's contents were 2GB when uncompressed, not that the

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-08 Thread Tim Conway
If it is, as you say, uncompressed, rsync will work on it as-is, finding and sending the changes. 73, Tim Conway Unix System Administration Contractor - IBM Global Services - ODCS desk:3039240938 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/04/2005 02:3

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-05 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 05:57:49PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Which kinda reminds me. Anyone knows where I can find the rsyncable > patch in an isolated form? Sure: it's in the patches subdir of the rsync source. I even updated it to apply to gzip 1.3.5: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/unp

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Martin Schröder wrote: On 2005-02-04 11:51:20 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: What distro is this? If it's Debian, gzip has an option called "--rsyncable". This makes changes to the uncompressed file local in the This is a debian-only patch which doesn't change the gzip version. :-( Best re

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-04 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2005-02-04 11:51:20 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > What distro is this? If it's Debian, gzip has an option called > "--rsyncable". This makes changes to the uncompressed file local in the This is a debian-only patch which doesn't change the gzip version. :-( Best regards Martin --

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-04 Thread Harald Dunkel
Shachar Shemesh wrote: What distro is this? If it's Debian, gzip has an option called "--rsyncable". This makes changes to the uncompressed file local in the compressed file. Of course it is Debian. Following your hint I have found http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/ Many thanx Harri -- To u

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, Are there any tricks known to let rsync operate on huge tar files? I've got a local tar file (e.g. 2GByte uncompressed) that is rebuilt each night (with just some tiny changes, of course), and I would like to update the remote copies of this file without extracting th