rsync seems to overwhelm a failing hard disk

? Is there a way to make rsync more gentle on a fragile disk? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https

rsync equivalent of 'cp -al' ?

in dir1. Why not just use cp? Because I want to be able to do it as a user who has sudo permission to run rsync but not cp. cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid

Re: rsync equivalent of 'cp -al' ?

that --link-dest needed a relative path. This works for me: rsync -Haxv --stats --link-dest ../dir1 dir1/ dir2 The / on the end of the second dir1 is, of course, essential. cheers Chris On 06/18/13 09:39, Chris Dennis wrote: Hello rsync people I thought I knew how to use rsync, but I can't work

Re: rsync equivalent of 'cp -al' ?

directory. Does that make sense? cheers Chris On 06/18/13 11:49, Chris Dennis wrote: On 18/06/13 15:02, Kevin Korb wrote: rsync -vai --lin-dest=/path/to/source/ /path/to/source/ /path/to/target/ Note that if you try it with relative paths the link-dest will be relative to the source

Re: rsync equivalent of 'cp -al' ?

On 18/06/13 17:35, Kevin Korb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you make a link to a link you make a link to all of its links. The effect is the same. Good point -- I hadn't thought of it like that. Thanks for the tip. cheers Chris On 06/18/13 12:27, Chris Dennis

Re: speedup is always 0.99

If either of the disks is formatted with FAT, then you'll need --modify-window=1 -- see the man page or http://serverfault.com/questions/54949/how-can-i-use-rsync-with-a-fat-file-system cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire

--list-only ordering

staying the same in the future? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: --list-only ordering

On 17/12/12 17:09, Paul Slootman wrote: On Mon 17 Dec 2012, Chris Dennis wrote: I've noticed an apparent inconsistency in the ordering of output from the --list-only option. For example: $ ls d1 d2 d2-x d3 f1 f2 f2-x f3 $ rsync --list-only . drwxr-xr-x4096 2012/12

Re: Brandysnap -- a new rsync-based snapshot management script

, that would be great. Depending upon the license you release Brandysnap under, perhaps in the future Brandysnap functionality could be incorporated into the LBackup project? It's GPL'd -- share and enjoy! cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com

Brandysnap -- a new rsync-based snapshot management script

GitHub at https://github.com/StarsoftAnalysis/brandysnap where you can follow its development and read more details. Hopefully it will prove useful. I look forward to hearing comments and ideas. cheers Chris -- Chris Denniscgden...@btinternet.com

Re: keep 2 dirs in sync

files and deleting files on *either* host. You may want to investigate unison, which is designed for such usage. Or syncany -- www.syncany.org cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please use reply-all for most

rsync 3.0.7 hangs with unreadable hard-links files

] -- If this is not a known bug, then hopefully this information will be of use. regards Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please use reply-all for most