--whole-file not working ?

[jw schultz]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:57:14AM -0700, Satsco wrote:
> schultz,
> 
> thanx for ur reply.
> i am a newbie at rsync.. so please bear with my silly
> errors, if any.
> 
> Yes, I know of the -a option being equal to -rlptgoD.
> i actually intended to use -rlpogtb, 'a' was inserted
> in there by error. I am not expecting "D" devices in
> the share and therefore i was reluctant to use "-a"
> 
> since i am using an SMB mount here, data is actually
> transferred over the network (LAN), therefore
> --bwlimit
> is actually a good idea -- in fact, its working gr8 !
> i am using --timeout because -- if for any reason the
> network connection to the SMB share is not available,
> the command must exit and not hang endlessly.

You'll get vastly better performance running rsync on cygwin
than using an SMB mount.

> i have been thru the man pages... are you talking of 
> --ignore-existing ?? will this be my solution ?
> does it in any way conflict with any other options
> that i have specified ?
> 
> thanx for ur time. really appreciate it.
> 
> regards,
> satsco.
> =====================================
> 
> --- jw schultz <jw at pegasys.ws> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 03:57:11AM -0700, Satsco
> > wrote:
> > > hello all,
> > > 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > 
> > What a strange command-line.  --whole-file is
> > automatic for
> > local which this is.  --bwlimit and --timeout only
> > apply to
> > network transfers.  Furthermore -a is the same as
> > -rlptgoD
> > so -arlpogtb is the same as -ab, the only part of -a
> > you
> > didn't redundantly specify was -D.
> > 
> > 	rsync -ab --suffix=~bak --stats /home/2/* /backup/2
> > \
> > 		> back2rsync.log 2>back2rsyncerr.log
> > 
> > would have had the exact same effect.
> > Perhaps reading the manpage would be a good idea.
> > 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > 
> > --whole-file instructs the utility that IF a file's
> > size or
> > mtime indicates it changed the rsync algorythm is to
> > be
> > disable and the whole file will be transferred.
> > 
> > In your case no files changes were detected so there
> > was
> > nothing to transfer/copy.
> > 
> > There is an option that will ignore that fact that
> > the file
> > times are unchanged but i'll let you find that by
> > reading
> > the manpage for yourself.
> > 
> > -- 
> >
> ________________________________________________________________
> > 	J.W. Schultz            Pegasystems Technologies
> > 	email address:		jw at pegasys.ws
> > 
> > 		Remember Cernan and Schmitt
> > -- 
> 
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