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:
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> I thought it was on by default ?
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>>Have a file (ie filelist.txt) that contains the filename (with relative
>>paths), one file per line.
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> That is what I have
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>>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.
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> Yes that MIGHT be a problem for me too
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>>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.
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> 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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