On Fri 29 Oct 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a bit paranoid, but had to ask-- How safe is it to use the --delete option?
ie, when using it locally (or via a mounted network volume), will I
*ever* have to worry about my actual source files being delete
mistakenly (instead of dest.
thanks, that's what I wanted to hear (:
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:22:16 +0200, Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri 29 Oct 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a bit paranoid, but had to ask-- How safe is it to use the --delete option?
ie, when using it locally (or via a mounted
I'm using several Windows 2000 clients to sync their contents with an Linux
rsync server. Since I found out that some files not always changes their
mod-time and size, while they're actually changed, I decided to use the
--checksum option.
Unfortunately this option is very slow and requires
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 01:28:44PM +0200, Joost van den Broek wrote:
With [--ignore-times] enabled, all files get's transferred every sync.
That's what that option does -- it turns off the quick-check algorithm
and transfers all the files. There is also the --size-only option, but
that wouldn't
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:03:43PM -0700, Rudy Moore wrote:
I noticed in the feature list that rsync pipelines file transfers to
minimize latency - does this only affect transfer of large numbers of
files?
It should be true of any transfer, but I'd estimate that the round-trip
time gets
