I just compiled rsync as 64 bit, the 3.0 series has a smaller memory foot print. It appears to work fine.
I'm confused by what you mean when you say "Most Solaris user space applications are not 64 bit clean" Could you please explain that? I'm new to solaris... Thanks root at yoda:/backup/homebackup# file /usr/local/bin/rsync /usr/local/bin/rsync: ELF 64-bit LSB executable AMD64 Version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped, no debugging information available vs. the one that comes with solaris root at yoda:/backup/homebackup# file /usr/bin/rsync /usr/bin/rsync: ELF 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1 [FPU], dynamically linked, stripped root at yoda:/backup/homebackup# /usr/local/bin/rsync --version rsync version 3.0.5 protocol version 30 Copyright (C) 1996-2008 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/ Capabilities: 64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints, socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, no IPv6, batchfiles, inplace, append, ACLs, no xattrs, iconv, no symtimes rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU General Public Licence for details. root at yoda:/backup/homebackup# /usr/bin/rsync --version rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 Copyright (C) 1996-2006 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. <http://rsync.samba.org/> Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, inplace, no IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU General Public Licence for details. root at yoda:/backup/homebackup# -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
