Change one file, and they all get sent!
Steve Howie
showie at uoguelph.ca
Sat Dec 13 06:44:24 EST 2003
Wayne Davison wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:49:26AM -0500, Steve Howie wrote:
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>>rsync --progress --recursive --links --stats arthur::test/ /var/tmp/haggis
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>You didn't use -t to tell it to preserve the file times. Without that,
>you must use -c to checksum the files to figure out if they need to be
>resent or not (which is much slower than just using -t).
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>..wayne..
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Many thanks Wayne - that was in fact the problem. When I think about it,
apart from doing a checksum on all the files, the only way to see which
ones have changed is to examine the timestamps.
We are planning to use rsync as a faster version of 'tar cvf - |
tar xvf - ' or rcp to transfer a WebCT file system between machines -
these file systems are notoriously hard to copy because of their 'flat
file database' architecture, characteriszed by *millions* of tiny
bitmap files. The system spends most of its time opening and closing
these files rather than actually sending data. Has anyone had experience
of the elapsed time file transfer improvements rsync would afford the
beleagured sysadmin with a file system having such a large number of
tiny files?
Another nice feature of rsync is the option of NOT having to following
symlinks - rcp forces you to follow them.
Thanks again!
Scotty
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