Re: sync performance falls off a cliff

2009-06-30 Thread Leen Besselink
Mike Connell wrote: Hi, Hi Mike, I've got identical servers. One is primary the other is backup receiving rsyncs from the primary. I'm backing up a file system to disk and the files are small and there are lots of directories. The overall problem seems to be the total number of files.

Re: difference between --no-implied-dir abd --keep-dirlinks ?

2009-06-30 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:33:34AM +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote: I have gone through the rsync documentation and also tested same both --no-implied-dir and --keep-dirlinks options. My question is what is the difference between these options in below scenario? Implied directories are those that

Re: [rsync] include-from with different source points

2009-06-30 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:43:02AM -0400, GravyFace wrote: sudo rsync --progress -avz --include-from=/home/gravyface/backup.list / /mnt/usbbackup/localbackup/ If you drop the '*'s from the lines in the file and switch to using --files-from, that should do what you were expecting. You still

Re: difference between --no-implied-dir abd --keep-dirlinks ?

2009-06-30 Thread paresh masani
Thanks Wayne; I understood your point but two more questions arise from details given by you is, if I have --keep-dirlinks specified but not --no-implied-dir then also it sends directory attributes, and the destination is forced to match that results into losing destination symlinks? I have

Re: how to keep user/group information when rsyncing to windows for restoring back to

2009-06-30 Thread henri
I am guessing that you would like to use rsync to create a bootable backup. It may also be worth while spending some time looking at CloneZilla or even dd? Dd is a really great tool. You know a copy of the device is bit for bit. You can then use rsync to make incremental copies of

How to get first level folder names with rsync commands?

2009-06-30 Thread Daniel.Li
Dear List, I set up a NetBackup destination on my server. And I backup test1 to NetBackup/test1, test2 to NetBackup/test2. Now I wanna know how many folders that have been backuped. It should be 2 folders, with the name of test1 and test2. But I don't know if there is any way to do so? Any

How to first level folder names with rsync commands?

2009-06-30 Thread Daniel.Li
Dear List, I set up a NetBackup destination on my server. And I backup test1 to NetBackup/test1, test2 to NetBackup/test2. Now I wanna know how many folders that have been backuped. It should be 2 folders, with the name of test1 and test2. But I don't know if there is any way to do so? Any

RE: How to get first level folder names with rsync commands?

2009-06-30 Thread Tony Abernethy
Something like ls -d NetBackup/* | wc should be informative. (assuming something unixy, of course -- cygwin stuff might work) -Original Message- From: rsync-bounces+tony=servacorp@lists.samba.org [mailto:rsync-bounces+tony=servacorp@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Daniel.Li

RE: How to get first level folder names with rsync commands?

2009-06-30 Thread Daniel.Li
Well, what I mean is running some rsync command, and get a list something like. $ rsync options destination List: test1 test2 Is it possible with rsync options? On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 00:23 -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote: Something like ls -d NetBackup/* | wc should be informative.