--append and then --append-verify will not work.

2015-04-05 Thread Hongyi Zhao
Hi all, I do some testings on rsync by using the following method: 1- rsyning the following file with rsync: rsync rsync://ftp.cn.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian7.8/main/binary-all/ Packages.bz2 . 2- Then I split the file into little files with the file size equaling to 128K, which is the maximu

--append and then --append-verify will not work.

2015-04-05 Thread Hongyi Zhao
Hi all, I do some testings on rsync by using the following method: 1- rsyning the following file with rsync: rsync rsync://ftp.cn.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian7.8/main/binary-all/ Packages.bz2 . 2- Then I split the file into little files with the file size equaling to 128K, which is the maxim

Downloading specific files with rsync and make them keeping the original directories structures.

2015-04-05 Thread Hongyi Zhao
Hi all, See the following command: $ rsync -av ftp.cn.debian.org::debian/dists/Debian7.8/Release . Which will download the file Release under the directory from which the rsync command is isssued. If I want to keep the original directories structures, say, for this case, put the the Release

Re: Downloading specific files with rsync and make them keeping the original directories structures.

2015-04-05 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 See --relative though it will need a little bit of massaging to avoid the debian dir. On 04/06/2015 12:29 AM, Hongyi Zhao wrote: > Hi all, > > See the following command: > > > $ rsync -av ftp.cn.debian.org::debian/dists/Debian7.8/Release . > > Wh

rsync --link-dest won't link even if existing file is out of date

2015-04-05 Thread Ken Chase
Feature request: allow --link-dest dir to be linked to even if file exists in target. This statement from the man page is adhered to too strongly IMHO: "This option works best when copying into an empty destination hierarchy, as rsync treats existing files as definitive (so it never looks in the