Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:00:18PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote: > > > > rsync --exclude "Packages*" debian/pool > > rsync --delete debian/pool (If old packages are even deleted)
It is probably a good idea to hold off the Sources* and Release* files too and then at the very end run a --delete-after. This is aproximately what I have started using... rsync -vaH --stats --partial --exclude Packages* \ --exclude Sources* --exclude Release* host::debian debian/ rsync -vaH --stats --partial --delete --delete-after \ host::debian debian/ > with this rsync implementation, will cause nearly every file > in the archive to be checksum-compared twice instead of once. No, rsync will only checksum files by default when they are being sent or if the timestamp and/or file sizes do not match. Rsync will only checksum every file if you hand it the -c option. The only problem with this is getting the whole file list twice which takes some io. I am looking at the possibility of using cvsup (yes that sounds strange, but trust me) for mirroring because it uses the same algorithm as rsync and is much faster when it comes to getting the file list. Rsync will wait until the entire file list has been received, whereas cvsup will immediately grab the first file on the list which saves a lot of time in many cases. - Doug
