IO errors on mountpoints cause failure with --one-file-system

I ran rsync with the --one-file-system option and observed: building file list ... readlink_stat /home/pimlott/mnt/hostname failed: Input/output error done IO error encountered - skipping file deletion Of course, this directory is a remote mount-point, and the remote host cannot be

sort of like a diff patch file

Hi there, I was wondering if there was anyway to use rsync to effectively create a 'diff' file? I have a situation where I don't have a network connection to certain files that are multi-gigabyte and binary (mainly), but they vary little. In order for me to have an up-to-date copy of the

Re: sort of like a diff patch file

G'day, On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 13:37, Steve W. Ingram wrote: Hi there, I was wondering if there was anyway to use rsync to effectively create a 'diff' file? is this a FAQ yet? A) rdiff. -- Donovan Baarda [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/ -- To unsubscribe or change

Re: sort of like a diff patch file

For just creating diffs, xdelta is even better (in that it creates smaller diffs very quickly) /Greger Donovan Baarda wrote: G'day, On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 13:37, Steve W. Ingram wrote: Hi there, I was wondering if there was anyway to use rsync to effectively create a 'diff' file? is

Re: sort of like a diff patch file

On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 15:31, Greger Cronquist wrote: For just creating diffs, xdelta is even better (in that it creates smaller diffs very quickly) xdelta requires that you have local access to the two files you want to diff... librsync's rdiff allows you to calculate a small signature which