Re: How to make big MySQL database more diffable/rsyncable? (aka rsyncing big files)

2009-08-26 Thread JW
On Monday 13 July 2009 14:18:38 Ryan Malayter wrote: It would be a big boost for large files if rsync remembered the hashes on each end, so it didn't have to re-read the files on every run if the files were unchanged. This is a feature that rsync's developers have rejected, since rsync is

Re: How to make big MySQL database more diffable/rsyncable? (aka rsyncing big files)

2009-08-26 Thread Jamie Lokier
JW wrote: On Monday 13 July 2009 14:18:38 Ryan Malayter wrote: It would be a big boost for large files if rsync remembered the hashes on each end, so it didn't have to re-read the files on every run if the files were unchanged. This is a feature that rsync's developers have rejected,

Re: How to make big MySQL database more diffable/rsyncable? (aka rsyncing big files)

2009-08-26 Thread Ryan Malayter
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Jamie Lokierja...@shareable.org wrote: Why don't they just use Unison? Because it doesn't work well. It is seriously unreliable with large files, on Linux or Windows. It also has a horrifying tendency to corrupt its own state databases, lock up, or exit

Using rsync to backup remote server as root

2009-08-26 Thread Allistar
Hi there, I use this rsync command to backup / of a remote server: rsync -Hav --delete --exclude-from=backup.excludes --delete-excluded -e ssh -p 45658 r...@samwise:/ /mnt/backup/samwise/backup Where: samwise: is the name of the server (yes yes, I know, naming computer after Hobbits may be

Re: Using rsync to backup remote server as root

2009-08-26 Thread Nathan Ward
On 27/08/2009, at 4:18 PM, Allistar wrote: How do I enable a full backup of the remote server without allowing root top log in to ssh? Can I somehow get rsync to login as a normal user and then do some kind of sudo command? --rsync-path=sudo rsync -- Nathan Ward -- Please use reply-all