filelist calculation algoritm

Aaron Morris aaronmorris at mindspring.com
Sat Jan 4 20:26:00 EST 2003


I usually use rsync 2.5.4 on AIX and compression is not enabled by 
default.  2.5.5 may be different.

Another important option would be to use "-u" since it would only 
transfer a file if it has changed (even if it is in the file list).

wim delvaux wrote:
> On Saturday 04 January 2003 19:49, Aaron Morris wrote:
> 
>>You did not specifically mention it:  compression (-z) would probably
>>help more than anything.  Otherwise, you could do something like:
> 
> 
> 	I thought it was on by default ?
> 
> 
>>Have a file (ie filelist.txt) that contains the filename (with relative
>>paths), one file per line.
> 
> 
> 	That is what I have
> 
> 
>>rsync -rRWz `cat filelist.txt` user at hostname::module
>>
>>The only limitation to this is if you have a large file list you may get
>>  a shell error.
> 
> 
> 	Yes that MIGHT be a problem for me too
> 
> 
>>It has already been suggested in this list, as well as by myself in the
>>rsync wishlist for a new option to specify a file that has a list of
>>files to be transferred.
> 
> 
> 	Perhaps i need to have a look a the sources and see what it takes
> 	to put that option in  (say --files)
> 
> 	Thanx
> 
> 	W

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