Here's an idea - I understand that I need rsync on both sides if I want to
minimize network traffic. What if I don't care about that - the entire file
can come over the network, but I specifically only want rsync to write the
changed blocks to disk. Does rsync offer a mode like that?
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This
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, BJ Quinn wrote:
Here's an idea - I understand that I need rsync on both sides if I
want to minimize network traffic. What if I don't care about that -
the entire file can come over the network, but I specifically only
want rsync to write the changed blocks to disk.
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, BJ Quinn wrote:
Here's an idea - I understand that I need rsync on both sides if I
want to minimize network traffic. What if I don't care about that -
the entire file can come over the network, but I specifically only
want rsync to write
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Erik Trimble wrote:
One note here for ZFS users:
On ZFS (or any other COW filesystem), rsync unfortunately does NOT do the
Right Thing when syncing an existing file. From ZFS's standpoint, the most
efficient way would be merely to rewrite the changed blocks, thus
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 08:43:18AM -0800, Erik Trimble wrote:
I _really_ wish rsync had an option to copy in place or something like
that, where the updates are made directly to the file, rather than a
temp copy.
Isn't this what --inplace does?
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albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
We're considering using an OpenSolaris server as a backup server. Some of the
servers to be backed up would be Linux and Windows servers, and potentially
Windows desktops as well. What I had imagined was that we could copy files
over to the ZFS-based server nightly, take a snapshot, and only
Thank you both for your responses. Let me see if I understand correctly -
1. Dedup is what I really want, but it's not implemented yet.
2. The only other way to accomplish this sort of thing is rsync (in other
words, don't overwrite the block in the first place if it's not different), and
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 20:54, BJ Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Dedup is what I really want, but it's not implemented yet.
Yes, as I read it. greenBytes [1] claims to have dedup on their
system; you might investigate them if you decide rsync won't work for
your application.
2. The only
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Will Murnane [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 20:54, BJ Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Dedup is what I really want, but it's not implemented yet.
Yes, as I read it. greenBytes [1] claims to have dedup on their
system; you might investigate
