Re: How to emulate rdiff behaviour

2009-06-01 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Matt McCutchen (m...@mattmccutchen.net) wrote on 31 May 2009 23:11: On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 07:10 +0800, Daniel.Li wrote: On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 14:34 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: And one more thing here: If you are going to prepare this batch file, it seems there will be double the

Re: How to emulate rdiff behaviour

2009-06-01 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 10:15:27AM -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote: In this case rsync automatically uses --whole-file. Will it do the same in the case of --only-write-batch? The default is always --no-whole-file when writing a batch. ..wayne.. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid

Re: How to emulate rdiff behaviour

2009-05-31 Thread Daniel.Li
Dear Wayne, Excellent, that's really what I have expected! Is it stable now? Cause I have found that this feature seems to be unstable before ver 3.0.6. - Fixed a --read-batch hang when rsync is reading a batch file that was created from an incremental-recursion transfer.

Re: How to emulate rdiff behaviour

2009-05-31 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 17:08 +0800, Daniel.Li wrote: Dear Wayne, Excellent, that's really what I have expected! Is it stable now? Cause I have found that this feature seems to be unstable before ver 3.0.6. - Fixed a --read-batch hang when rsync is reading a batch file that was

Re: How to emulate rdiff behaviour

2009-05-31 Thread Daniel.Li
On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 14:34 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: And one more thing here: If you are going to prepare this batch file, it seems there will be double the workload of network, see below statements? Is that right? rsync -av --only-write-batch=/batches/$DATE bhost:/backup2/

Re: How to emulate rdiff behaviour

2009-05-31 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 07:10 +0800, Daniel.Li wrote: On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 14:34 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: And one more thing here: If you are going to prepare this batch file, it seems there will be double the workload of network, see below statements? Is that right? rsync -av

Re: How to emulate rdiff behaviour

2009-05-31 Thread Daniel.Li
On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 23:11 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 07:10 +0800, Daniel.Li wrote: On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 14:34 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: And one more thing here: If you are going to prepare this batch file, it seems there will be double the workload of

Re: How to emulate rdiff behaviour

2009-05-30 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:32:16AM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: - Each day, generate a reverse batch (by running rsync in the reverse direction with --only-write-batch) and then update the destination file. In order to avoid any inconsistency between the files when the reverse run is done and

Re: How to emulate rdiff behaviour

2009-05-28 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 21:58 +, Frank Harmann wrote: i am new to rsync and i want to use rsync to emulate rdiff behaviour (because i can't install rdiff on the system). What i would like rsync to do is to generate a diff file (like with rsync --write-batch) but WITHOUT changing the

How to emulate rdiff behaviour

2009-05-27 Thread Frank Harmann
Hi, i am new to rsync and i want to use rsync to emulate rdiff behaviour (because i can't install rdiff on the system). What i would like rsync to do is to generate a diff file (like with rsync --write-batch) but WITHOUT changing the destination file. This would allow me to store daily