Re: rsyncing files that might change

2007-11-01 Thread Fabian Cenedese
At 23:09 31.10.2007 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 10:35 +1000, Franc Carter wrote: If am rsyncing a file and I have the the following sequence of events happen in the same second 1. rsync starts 2. rsync sends some chunk of data to the other end 3 a local

Re: rsyncing files that might change

2007-11-01 Thread Franc Carter
On 11/1/07, Fabian Cenedese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 23:09 31.10.2007 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 10:35 +1000, Franc Carter wrote: If am rsyncing a file and I have the the following sequence of events happen in the same second 1. rsync starts 2. rsync

Re: rsyncing files that might change

2007-11-01 Thread Franc Carter
On 11/1/07, Matt McCutchen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 10:35 +1000, Franc Carter wrote: If am rsyncing a file and I have the the following sequence of events happen in the same second 1. rsync starts 2. rsync sends some chunk of data to the other end 3 a

Re: rsyncing files that might change

2007-11-01 Thread Jamie Lokier
Franc Carter wrote: Unfortunately, yes. Shouldn't that be caught by the fact that the source file has a new (or at least different) time stamp now? Sorry, I should have given a clearer example. All in one second 1. a process modifies the file and hence

RE: rsyncing files that might change

2007-10-31 Thread Tony Abernethy
Flames/Cluestick invited if I've got this wrong. I would expect: rsync checks blocks on source to see if they are the same. blocks which seemed to be the same (past tense) are not sent. blocks which seemed to be different will be sent with whatever the current content of the block happens to be.

Re: rsyncing files that might change

2007-10-31 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 10:35 +1000, Franc Carter wrote: If am rsyncing a file and I have the the following sequence of events happen in the same second 1. rsync starts 2. rsync sends some chunk of data to the other end 3 a local process modifies the chunk that has just been sent

Re: Rsyncing files

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 28 Oct 2004, Ryan Holowaychuk wrote: I want to to an Rsync with 4 servers. I want to sync the passwd and shadow. But I only want to do certain records to sync. basically all the user info. Is there away that this can be done? or do I have to do the whole file? Rsync handles data per

Re: rsyncing files in flash

2003-02-25 Thread Bennett Todd
2003-02-25T11:25:29 wim delvaux: I wonder how rsync works when files-to-be-updated are in flash (e.g. on IPAQ) Same thing that happens anywhere, as long as the flash is presented as a filesystem with POSIX semantics to a platform where rsync can run. I use rsync for automatic backups of Memory