Mass software update distribution + checksum-updating

2007-07-09 Thread Gavriel State
Hello Rsync devs, We're investigating ways to provide large scale software updates for multi-gigabyte games, and have recently begun to explore whether rsync may fit the bill. In particular, the checksum-updating patch looks like it might be able to solve our biggest concerns about CPU load

Exclude not working

2007-07-09 Thread Madhavan Chari
Hi, I am facing a problem with rsync exclude filter. It seems even though I am trying to exclude few directories under my directory structure, it is still getting copied every time it runs. The folder structure is as below. Source Directory Structure opt msc arb821 Server

Re: Mass software update distribution + checksum-updating

2007-07-09 Thread Martin Schröder
2007/7/9, Gavriel State [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We're investigating ways to provide large scale software updates for multi-gigabyte games, and have recently begun to explore IMHO bittorrent is a better way to do this. Best Martin -- To unsubscribe or change options:

Re: Exclude not working

2007-07-09 Thread Giuliano Gavazzi
On 9 Jul 2007, at 08:17, Madhavan Chari wrote: This is how I am trying to exclude the directories. All the directories have sub-directories also. E1=/opt/mscdr/arb821/Server/transmissionData E2=/opt/mscdr/arb821/Server/logs E3=/opt/mscdr/arb821/Server/temp

Re: Mass software update distribution + checksum-updating

2007-07-09 Thread Gavriel State
Martin Schröder wrote: We're investigating ways to provide large scale software updates for multi-gigabyte games, and have recently begun to explore IMHO bittorrent is a better way to do this. Bittorrent might be good for an initial distribution, but the problem we're focused on right now

Re: Exclude not working

2007-07-09 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 7/9/07, Giuliano Gavazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 Jul 2007, at 08:17, Madhavan Chari wrote: This is how I am trying to exclude the directories. All the directories have sub-directories also. E1=/opt/mscdr/arb821/Server/transmissionData E2=/opt/mscdr/arb821/Server/logs

Re: Mass software update distribution + checksum-updating

2007-07-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 02:13:36AM -0400, Gavriel State wrote: In particular, the checksum-updating patch looks like it might be able to solve our biggest concerns about CPU load on the update server, since the actual content being served will change quite rarely. The only checksum that is