On 23 Apr 2002, Jason Haar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:01:13PM -0400, David Bolen wrote: > > Unless you have quite large files, in which case there can be a > > lengthy period (particularly if the file is being accessed across a > > local network) while checksums are computed where there is no traffic > > at all. For a while (when we had slow drives and a 10BaseT network) > > we could take 20-30 minutes for checksum computation on a 500-600MB > > database file with 4K blocks. And our long distance dialup call was > > completely idle during that period.
I guess alternatively you could set the rsync timeout high, the line-drop timeout low, and make it dial on demand. That would let the line drop when rsync was really thinking hard, and it would come back up as necessary. Losing the ppp channel does not by itself interrupt any tcp sessions running across it, provided that you can recover the same ip address next time you connect. -- Martin -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
