Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-13 Thread Ric Otte
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:31:47PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Ric Otte wrote: One thing I notice is that while copying the files (using either cp or rsync (and also tar, although I didn't pay as much attention), is that according to top, Xfree86 is often using up to 78-99% of the cpu, and

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 21:53 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a SATA hard disk in my machine, and recently installed a 200gb Seagate IDE hard drive in it to use as backup. I want to use rsync to backup my home directory to this machine. I used mkfs.ext3 to format the drive as ext3, and

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-12 Thread Ric Otte
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 03:07:41AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Does tar succeed as well? Yes, I believe so. I just copied several directories using tar, and fsck says everything is fine. One thing I notice is that while copying the files (using either cp or rsync (and also tar, although I

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 08:49 -0700, Ric Otte wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 03:07:41AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Does tar succeed as well? Yes, I believe so. I just copied several directories using tar, and fsck says everything is fine. One thing I notice is that while copying the files

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-12 Thread Richard Otte
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 04:13:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: What if you pipe stdout to a text file? Ron, I reformatted the drive, and began rsync with the errors piped to a file (rsync -av --exclude-from=.rsync.all /home/ric /bkup/ 2xxx.rsync) Things went fine for a long time, but eventually

Re: ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Ric Otte wrote: One thing I notice is that while copying the files (using either cp or rsync (and also tar, although I didn't pay as much attention), is that according to top, Xfree86 is often using up to 78-99% of the cpu, and things are very sluggish for a few seconds after the copying is

ext3 and rsync problem

2005-09-11 Thread otte
I have a SATA hard disk in my machine, and recently installed a 200gb Seagate IDE hard drive in it to use as backup. I want to use rsync to backup my home directory to this machine. I used mkfs.ext3 to format the drive as ext3, and mounted the drive (mount -text3 /dev/hdc /bkup). I then made a