disconnected synchronization (mostly unidirectional)

[Konrad Karl]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:20:57AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:12:58AM +0100, Konrad Karl wrote:
> > Given this capability together with the batch mode it should be
> > possible to do what I want.
> 
> Not really, because rsync still needs to ask for the checksums to see
> what has changed.  If you're fine sending whole files, it would be easy
> to code something up in perl that just compared size+mtime to a list and

yes, I was only considering --whole-files and I would prefer to have
a solution which uses rsync - there exist wierd filenames and rsync
has proven to cope fine with those. (so far)

But first I will have to understand how exactly rsync is working
internally for the simple case: create a batch for:
rsync some_local_tree -> another_local_directory

it just would need the fileinfo of another_local_directory from
somewhere (database, whatever) in order to generate rsync batch 
files with --whole-files or am I missing something?

Konrad

> copied each whole file somewhere.  For instance, there's a perl script
> in the support dir, file-attr-restore, that uses a "find ... -ls" file
> to restore attributes in a hierarchy.  That could be adapted to do what
> you want, especially if the find output was customized to output the
> modified time value in a full-resolution format:
> 
>     find . -printf '%s %T@ %p\n'
> 
 ..wayne..