Re: rsync checksums change randomly

2013-08-28 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If rsync computes a different checksum for the same data I would suspect that something is corrupting the data occasionally. If it is a disk problem then I would expect one side to be seeing IO errors but without that I would suspect bad RAM on one en

rsync checksums change randomly

2013-08-28 Thread Tomasz Muras
Hello, I have a weird issue with rsync randomly marking some files as having a different checksum (see sample outputs below - run one after another). You would think it is some kind of corruption / io problem with the files but it doesn't seem so - I have copied files around, changes source to dif

Re: rsync checksums

2008-04-28 Thread Karl Kashofer
Hi ! > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:06:00PM +0200, Karl Kashofer wrote: > > rsync calculates a md4 checksum of every file transferred. Would it > > be possible to store this checksum for future use, i.e. to recheck the > > files of each rsync snapshot at any later time ? > > The "db.diff" patch in

Re: rsync checksums

2008-04-28 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:06:00PM +0200, Karl Kashofer wrote: > rsync calculates a md4 checksum of every file transferred. Would it > be possible to store this checksum for future use, i.e. to recheck the > files of each rsync snapshot at any later time ? The "db.diff" patch in the latest source

rsync checksums

2008-04-27 Thread Karl Kashofer
Hi all ! I am currently trying to find a smart way to long-term-backup my data. I currently do link-dest-updates to an external hdd. However, I am concerned about data corruption in the backup or the original, i.e. corruption of the data inside the files. Thus i am wondering if there is a way t

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

Re: Rsync checksums

2003-01-28 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:13:10PM +0200, Niko Nyman wrote: > on 28.1.2003 15:06, jw schultz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Would it be possible to archive files on a removable drive, save the > >> checksums for the archived files, and later compare existing files against > >> the saved checks

Re: Rsync checksums

2003-01-28 Thread Niko Nyman
on 28.1.2003 15:06, jw schultz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Would it be possible to archive files on a removable drive, save the >> checksums for the archived files, and later compare existing files against >> the saved checksums without plugging in the removable drive? I imagine in >> theory t

Re: Rsync checksums

2003-01-28 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:30:50PM +0200, Niko Nyman wrote: > Hi, > > This is a newbie type'o'question so I'm most probably talking about > something I know nothing about ;) > > Would it be possible to archive files on a removable drive, save the > checksums for the archived files, and later comp

Rsync checksums

2003-01-28 Thread Niko Nyman
Hi, This is a newbie type'o'question so I'm most probably talking about something I know nothing about ;) Would it be possible to archive files on a removable drive, save the checksums for the archived files, and later compare existing files against the saved checksums without plugging in the rem