Hi, I tried performing a complete copy of 17GB of filesystems over the WAN (0.8GB/hr) with the speed of 16Mbps. The filesystem consists of several large g-zipped files. These large g-zipped files have actually been zipped out of other sub-filesystems and directories. I noticed that while transferring a lists of large g-zipped files, rsync tends to take a much longer time to transfer those files and at times, it even hangs.
I'm invoked rsync to transfer these large file-systems from Host A to Host B as follows: >From Host A: # rsync -avz /fs10/archives/archive.gz hostB:/fs10/archives When transferring filesystems without large g-zipped files, the rsync process would reach its completion: building file list ... done dir1/file1 dir2/file2 wrote 100 bytes read 36 bytes 358.00 bytes/sec total size is 51 speedup is 0.28 In the case of transferring those large g-zipped files, it hangs in the midst of the transfer or even at the end of the transfer, giving no indication whatsoever if rsync had successfully copied those files across. The rsync version which I running is # /usr/bin/rsync --version rsync version 2.4.6 protocol version 24 I'm running the mentioned version of rsync on the following platforms: Linux RPM 7.1 HP-UX 11.00 (OS version level: E, OS release level B.11.00) IBM AIX (release 3, OS version 4). Those g-zipped files were compressed using gzip version 1.2.4(18 Aug 93), and with the following method: # cat dir1 dir2 dir3 ... | gzip > archives.gz I was wondering if there is a work-around to overcome this problem which I'm facing? Are there any switches in rsync or scripts which I need to implement to solve this glitch? Thanks -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
