Syncing file with reference to another one

I have the following situation: file2 on remote host and file1 on localhost. file1 and file2 are mostly the same. Simply running rsync remotehost:file2 file2 will actually transfer the entire file. But I would like to use the factt that I have local file1 that is mostly similar to file2. I.e. how

sorting files by size

Hi everyone, I use rsync to incrementally maintain a complete mirror of my laptop. Due to the presence of large files (video), I often have to interrupt rsync and restart it later. In this context, an option --sort-by-size would be very helpful to get the maximum number of files transfered

Re: v3.0.4 OS X Execution Errors

I don't think this is Mac specific - I am getting it between two FreeBSD Machines - I don't know if this helps you at all. cheers Ben Henri S wrote: I agree with Matt it looks like the old version is still in use. If you would like to run backups with rsync on Mac OS X, then you may

logging mechanism in rsync

Hi Friends, Does rsync V3 has the feature for logging the files which have not been transferred? Its already logs the file which have been transfered. Thanks, Jignesh -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options:

RE: rsync and MD5

That decision obviously depends on processing power and network capacity available. A recent thread on Slashdot (http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/12/14/162235.shtml) mentioned this research which might give more insight: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/dsync-usenix2008-abstract.html And btw, I

Re: Transfer mode

On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:57 +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote: Hello Friends, Could any one please tell me what is transfer mode and what are the transfer modes available in rsync? I'm not sure what you mean by transfer mode; I don't know of a concept by that specific name in the concept of rsync.

Transfer mode

Hello Friends, Could any one please tell me what is transfer mode and what are the transfer modes available in rsync? Thanks, Jignesh -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync

rsync and MD5

Hi all! I've got a question about rsync using the MD5 algorithm. I know that rsync makes blocks of a file and then compares the checksums of each block. If the checksum is unequal the block is tranfered. Otherwise it could be that the checksum is the same but the block is different. Therefor

RE: rsync and MD5

That decision obviously depends on processing power and network capacity available. A recent thread on Slashdot (http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/12/14/162235.shtml) mentioned this research which might give more insight: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/dsync-usenix2008-abstract.html And btw,

Re: logging mechanism in rsync

On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 16:56 +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote: Does rsync V3 has the feature for logging the files which have not been transferred? Out of what set do you want to see the files not transferred? - For files hidden by exclude rules, pass -vv (or --debug=exclude if your rsync is new

Re: Transfer mode

hi... http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/rsync_content.html On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Jignesh Shah jignesh.shah1...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Friends, Could any one please tell me what is transfer mode and what are the transfer modes available in rsync? Thanks, Jignesh --

Backing up Outlook pst files

Hi - I'm backing up a Windows client which has a number of Outlook mail archives (pst files) and annoyingly whenever you open Outlook it updates the modification dates of all pst files - even if you don't change any of the emails contained in the archive. What's the best way of backing up

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5977] New: --delay-updates --partial-dir

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5977 Summary: --delay-updates --partial-dir Product: rsync Version: 3.0.4 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Windows XP Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3

Re: Syncing file with reference to another one

On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 01:28 +0200, Hai Zaar wrote: I have the following situation: file2 on remote host and file1 on localhost. file1 and file2 are mostly the same. Simply running rsync remotehost:file2 file2 will actually transfer the entire file. But I would like to use the factt that I

Re: Backing up Outlook pst files

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:34 PM, MW rs...@urmel.demon.co.uk wrote: Hi - I'm backing up a Windows client which has a number of Outlook mail archives (pst files) and annoyingly whenever you open Outlook it updates the modification dates of all pst files - even if you don't change any of the

Re: rsync architecture

On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 10:14 +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote: I am trying to see the rsync source code. I could see that there are main three processes: I realize that Server or Client becomes Sender or Receiver based on arguments provided. 1. What is the roll of deamon process. How it different

rsync 3.0.4 hangs when I increase verbosity

Hi all,I need some help. I self compiled rsync 3.0.4 on Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger)Trying to run the command below...rsync --dry-run -aucvvvX --log-file=fly-dryrun.txt /Volumes/airplane/ /Volumes/plane/flight when running the above command, rsync idles with no action. Anything above 2 v's