Long time needed for "Building file list" Any suggestions ?
Jim Salter
jim at jrssystems.net
Tue Mar 23 01:16:29 GMT 2004
But why would you want to use rsync if you've already built your file
list? Seems kinda pointless... I mean if it got touched, you definitely
want to copy it, so, yeah. =)
Jim Salter
> Good idea
> find / -ctime -1h |rsync -a --files-from=- / destination
> No perl needed. You might want mtime instead, though.
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> Tim Conway
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>>This does bring up one point though. Is there any way to optimize file
>>list building? It seems like that turns into a huge bottleneck in the
>>"lots of files" situation.
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> If you already know you're working with a mirror on the other end, and
> you know when your last sync was, and you're a moderately decent Perl
> hacker, you can pretty easily hack together a script that will take the
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> find / -ctime -1h
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