Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-08 Thread Tim Conway
AM To rsync@lists.samba.org cc Subject rsync huge tar files Hi folks, Are there any tricks known to let rsync operate on huge tar files? I've got a local tar file (e.g. 2GByte uncompressed) that is rebuilt each night (with just some tiny changes, of course), and I would like

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Martin Schröder wrote: On 2005-02-04 11:51:20 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: What distro is this? If it's Debian, gzip has an option called --rsyncable. This makes changes to the uncompressed file local in the This is a debian-only patch which doesn't change the gzip version. :-( Best

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-05 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 05:57:49PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Which kinda reminds me. Anyone knows where I can find the rsyncable patch in an isolated form? Sure: it's in the patches subdir of the rsync source. I even updated it to apply to gzip 1.3.5:

rsync huge tar files

2005-02-04 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Are there any tricks known to let rsync operate on huge tar files? I've got a local tar file (e.g. 2GByte uncompressed) that is rebuilt each night (with just some tiny changes, of course), and I would like to update the remote copies of this file without extracting the tar files into

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-04 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, Are there any tricks known to let rsync operate on huge tar files? I've got a local tar file (e.g. 2GByte uncompressed) that is rebuilt each night (with just some tiny changes, of course), and I would like to update the remote copies of this file without extracting

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-04 Thread Harald Dunkel
Shachar Shemesh wrote: What distro is this? If it's Debian, gzip has an option called --rsyncable. This makes changes to the uncompressed file local in the compressed file. Of course it is Debian. Following your hint I have found http://rsync.samba.org/rsync-and-debian/ Many thanx Harri -- To

Re: rsync huge tar files

2005-02-04 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2005-02-04 11:51:20 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: What distro is this? If it's Debian, gzip has an option called --rsyncable. This makes changes to the uncompressed file local in the This is a debian-only patch which doesn't change the gzip version. :-( Best regards Martin --