Re: rsync and hard links

2004-09-29 Thread John
Please ignore this thread for the moment. At present, there are no complete copies of the file in question at the destination. I was sure yesterday, but OTOH I can't imagine why existing copies would have been deleted. It's not supposed to work that way. I've been monitoring the situation in sc

Re: rsync and hard links

2004-09-29 Thread John
Wayne Davison wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 01:36:14PM +0800, John wrote: Is there something in the above options I should add or remove? I don't see anything wrong that should prevent the hard-linking from happening. If you do an "ls -li" on the source files, do they all show the same in

Re: rsync and hard links

2004-09-29 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 01:36:14PM +0800, John wrote: > Is there something in the above options I should add or remove? I don't see anything wrong that should prevent the hard-linking from happening. If you do an "ls -li" on the source files, do they all show the same inode number? I'll run some

rsync and hard links

2004-09-28 Thread John
For those who saw my earlier posts regarding reliability and robustness, there were several problems; 1. rsync does not retry when there are transmission errors such as timeouts. I suggest it ought (as wget does): doing so would have enabled a clean recovery from the network problems we had. 2.