RE: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread David Bolen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: > Actually, the lack of -W isn't helping me at all. The reason is that > even for the stuff I do over the network, 99% of it is compressed with > gzip or bzip2. If the files change, the originals were changed and a > new compression is made, and usu

Re: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread Phil Howard
David Bolen wrote: > The discovery phase will by default just check timestamps and sizes. > You can adjust that with command line options, including the use of -c > to include a full file checksum as part of the comparison, if for > example, files might change without affecting timestamp or size.

RE: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread David Bolen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: >Dave Dykstra wrote: > >> That's two different kinds of checksums. The -c option runs a whole-file >> checksum on both sides, but if you don't use -W the rsync rolling checksum >> will be applied. > >So the chunk-by-chunk checksum always is used w/o

reset error

2001-05-25 Thread Simison, Matthew
I am getting this error, read error: Connection reset by peer Why is this happening? Solaris 7 to Solaris 7 rsync v-2.4.1 rsync -a -z --address ${IP} /data/test user@${hostIP}::root/data Matt

Re: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 04:33:28PM -0500, Phil Howard wrote: > Dave Dykstra wrote: > > > One possibility here is that I do have /var/run symlinked to /ram/run > > > which is on a ramdisk. So the lock file is there. The file is there > > > but it is empty. Should it have data in it? BTW, it was

Re: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:39:31PM -0500, Phil Howard wrote: > Dave Dykstra wrote: > > > > 2 = > > > When syncronizing a very large number of files, all files in a large > > > partition, rsync frequently hangs. It's abou

Re: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread Phil Howard
Dave Dykstra wrote: > > 2 = > > When syncronizing a very large number of files, all files in a large > > partition, rsync frequently hangs. It's about 50% of the time, but > > seems to be a function of how much work ther

Re: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:14:17PM -0500, Phil Howard wrote: > I switched to 2.4.6 a while back, but have only been making heavy > use of rsync the past couple of months, and have been running into > a few problems that may be bugs. I looked at the bug tracker, but > it was too cumbersome to use

RE: disk space requirement in using rsync

2001-05-25 Thread David Bolen
> It's not disk space that's needed, it's process memory. I don't know > the exact number of bytes or on which side though. Here's an old message of mine when I tried to do a simple analysis - it was based on 2.4.3 source, but it's probably still fairly close. (a followup note corrected the fir

Re: incomplete syncronisation of folders

2001-05-25 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:27:45PM +1000, Colin Nathan wrote: > Hi all, hope you can help > > We are mounting a NetWare 5.x volume using NCP and then attempting to > syncronise between two local folders on this particular Linux server. > > Problem 1. > > The syncronisation occasionally "gets st

problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread Phil Howard
I switched to 2.4.6 a while back, but have only been making heavy use of rsync the past couple of months, and have been running into a few problems that may be bugs. I looked at the bug tracker, but it was too cumbersome to use effectively. I don't know if these are real bugs or just configurati

Re: disk space requirement in using rsync

2001-05-25 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:29:48AM -0400, dywang wrote: > hi, there, > > I understand that rsync need about 100Bytes for every file to be transfered > in order to build the file list. > > Could anyone tell me where this space is needed, on the machine where rsync > initiated, or the remote machi

disk space requirement in using rsync

2001-05-25 Thread dywang
hi, there, I understand that rsync need about 100Bytes for every file to be transfered in order to build the file list. Could anyone tell me where this space is needed, on the machine where rsync initiated, or the remote machine, or both? e.g.at BOX A: Box-A#rsync -avz -e ssh dir-a someone@

disk space requirement in using rsync

2001-05-25 Thread dywang
hi, there, I understand that rsync need about 100Bytes for every file to be transfered in order to build the file list. Could anyone tell me where this space is needed, on the machine where rsync initiated, or the remote machine, or both? e.g.at BOX A: Box-A#rsync -avz -e ssh dir-a someone@