Re: Using --keep-dirlinks : recursive symlinks problem

2004-08-22 Thread Ivan Manida
It is not infinite, but it is inconvenient since rsync would generate a transfer error. I think it makes sense to detect such symlinks and have an option which would modify copy-links and keep-dirlinks behavior, since it's not always possible to modify the sending filesystem to correct the

Question about suitability of rsync utility

2004-08-22 Thread Sai Nanduru
Hi there, I would like to ask a quick question to the experts on this mailing list. If it has already been answered please pardon me (and point me to the location where I can view the answer). I have a need to setup a mirror for an NFS file system exported from a NetApp Filer device (based on BSD

Re: Question about suitability of rsync utility

2004-08-22 Thread Ivan Manida
To be short - yes, we transferred larger quantities of files using rsync. Just make sure you have enough memory on the machines which run it, at least 512MB free for rsync's use and it'll sync a million file partition. So if you're sure you only got around 100K files, you'll be fine (does not

[Bug 1646] New: --inplace with --backup --backup-dir does not work

2004-08-22 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1646 Summary: --inplace with --backup --backup-dir does not work Product: rsync Version: 2.6.3 Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3

CVS update: rsync/patches

2004-08-22 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Mon Aug 23 01:20:21 2004 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync/patches In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv23217 Modified Files: acl.diff Log Message: Tweaked the text of a few error messages. Revisions: acl.diff1.12 = 1.13