Re: Static server side listing

2011-12-22 Thread Joachim Otahal (privat)
Joachim Otahal (privat) schrieb: When it is OK to let the users have an 24h old filelist, is it at the same time OK if the user gets only up to 24h old files? Whoops, I _hope_ you know I meant "get the files up to 24h late?". -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing

Re: Static server side listing

2011-12-22 Thread Joachim Otahal (privat)
Mark Constable schrieb: I've looking for a solution for this and no amount of googling has come up with anything. Is it possible to provide a static listing on a server, say every 24 hours, that a standard end-user rsync can pull and use? I have a lot of files to provide and the idea of every r

Re: Static server side listing

2011-12-22 Thread Brian K. White
Same problem ftp servers have had since decades ago. And the answer was (initially) to provide a ls-lR file in the top level directory or in every directory and educate users to use it. Perhaps you could enforce that by removing the ability to browse/list, but not the ability to download files

Re: Static server side listing

2011-12-21 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 afaik, there is nothing in rsync that can do what you are asking for. I don't know of anything outside of rsync that can do it either but then I don't know everything. My initial thought is to provide a tarball and/or a snapshot from some change mana

Re: Static server side listing

2011-12-21 Thread Mark Constable
On 22/12/11 14:59, Kevin Korb wrote: Is it possible to provide a static listing on a server, say every 24 hours, that a standard end-user rsync can pull and use? Sounds like a job for a snapshot. If you are on Linux that would be an lvm2 snapshot. Other operating systems with basic volume man

Re: Static server side listing

2011-12-21 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It would provide a static copy. The rest would be up to the OS to cache in RAM. On 12/21/11 23:57, Mark Constable wrote: > On 22/12/11 14:44, Kevin Korb wrote: >>> Is it possible to provide a static listing on a server, say >>> every 24 hours, that a

Re: Static server side listing

2011-12-21 Thread Mark Constable
On 22/12/11 14:44, Kevin Korb wrote: Is it possible to provide a static listing on a server, say every 24 hours, that a standard end-user rsync can pull and use? Sounds like a job for a snapshot. If you are on Linux that would > be an lvm2 snapshot. Other operating systems with basic volume

Re: Static server side listing

2011-12-21 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sounds like a job for a snapshot. If you are on Linux that would be an lvm2 snapshot. Other operating systems with basic volume management usually have an equivalent. On 12/21/11 23:35, Mark Constable wrote: > I've looking for a solution for this an

Static server side listing

2011-12-21 Thread Mark Constable
I've looking for a solution for this and no amount of googling has come up with anything. Is it possible to provide a static listing on a server, say every 24 hours, that a standard end-user rsync can pull and use? I have a lot of files to provide and the idea of every request dynamically provid