rsync to iSCSI over WAN

[Tom Christensen]

Wow...
I don't know how many times I read through the man file... sorry I missed that... 
Thanks,
Tom

> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:32:51 -0400
> From: rsync at benizi.com
> To: pavera at live.com
> CC: rsync at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: rsync to iSCSI over WAN
> 
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Tom Christensen wrote:
> > 
> > > I am running rsync in cygwin on windows. I am attempting to backup a 
> > > somewhat large data store (750GB) to a remote site. As its windows 
> > > and preserving permissions exactly is important, I have an iSCSI 
> > > drive mounted on the local system across a somewhat slow WAN link 
> > > (IE, it would take about 3 months to copy the datastore over it).  
> > > Unfortunately, since this appears as a "local" copy to rsync, it 
> > > always copies whole files. Even though it is a "local" copy, I want 
> > > to only send diffs, as we have large files that have small changes 
> > > daily.  Reading the man page, and everything I can find on the net I 
> > > don't see an option to force diffs only/rsync protocol, is this 
> > > possible?
> > 
> > I didn't see a "don't use --whole-file"-type option. [...]
> 
> Apparently I didn't look very hard...  searched for 'whole' again in the 
> man page...
> 
> Just use --no-whole-file.
> 
> Though the batch mode is also a handy thing to know about, there's 
> overhead from making two passes.
> 
> -- 
> Best,
> Ben
 		 	   		  
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