rsync 3 (was Re: problems encountered in 2.4.6)

2001-05-28 Thread John N S Gill
There is a feature I would like, and I notice that even with -c this does not happen, but I think it could based on the way rsync works. What I'd like to have is when a whole file is moved from one directory to another, rsync would detect a new file with the same checksum as an existing

Re: Storing updates

2001-05-17 Thread John N S Gill
On 16 May 2001 20:49:10 +0100, bernard.mcauley wrote: Hi, I'm currently using rsync to mirror a large directory at a remote site. The directory tree is over 40 GB in size and undergoes constant updates. However, I would like to have more control over the mirror as changes to the directory

Re: Rsync zipped file

2001-05-09 Thread John N S Gill
For testing , I run run the following: rsync va_sync.zip $site::cache/va_cache/ (the file to be sync'ed is one of several zip files under /va_cache/ ie /va_cache/va_sync.zip. My questions are: Would rsync be the right tool for the task ? Is my command line adequate/optimal to

rsync, smbmount, NT and timestamps

2001-05-02 Thread John N S Gill
For some time I've been using rsync to sync up some NT file folders and it has been working like a treat. I use smbmount to mount the NT shares to linux boxes at each end of the link and then let rsync do the rest. Last week the linux boxes were upgraded to redhat 7.1. I am now using the

Re: rsync, smbmount, NT and timestamps

2001-05-02 Thread John N S Gill
First thanks very much for the help. If I remember correctly, that's precisely why that option was added. I'm not sure why you didn't see the problem before. Ah yes, see http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2000-July/002503.html which says it defaults to 2 on Windows. hmmm