Re: bogus hardlinks bug?

2003-11-30 Thread John Van Essen
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i did: > $  rsync -vRHSPa rsync://rsync.mirror.ac.uk/updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/SRPMS . > into an empty local directory >  > the result was 140 bogus hardlinks of the same file: [ snip ] >  > i repeated the command without the "H" and it was h

rsync'd destination much larger than source

2003-11-30 Thread acct svcs
Hello. Recently, I started using rsync to backup files in my root partition on an Ensim box over to a remote machine. The remote machine 'pulls' from the Ensim box using the following: rsync -arvzx --exclude=/proc --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/mnt --delete --delete-excluded -e ssh 192.168.0.1:/ /b

Re: rsync'd destination much larger than source

2003-11-30 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sun 30 Nov 2003, acct svcs wrote: > > The problem is, if I 'df' the Ensim box, it reports that the entire root > partition > is using 3.5 GB of space, however, the rsync'd copy of the root directory > structure on the remote box is consuming over 23 GB. Note that I did use Perhaps there ar

Re: rsync'd destination much larger than source

2003-11-30 Thread John Van Essen
Joe, On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, acct svcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > rsync -arvzx --exclude=/proc --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/mnt --delete > --delete-excluded -e ssh 192.168.0.1:/ /bkup/rootpart/ > > The problem is, if I 'df' the Ensim box, it reports that the entire root > partition > is using 3.5