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

Using the rsync checksums for handling large logfiles.

2003-11-14 Thread Alun
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 have around 30 unix and linux servers doing core services. Each one i