getting a list of conflicting files

Kevin Korb kmk at sanitarium.net
Thu Aug 1 00:22:41 MDT 2013


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If you are just looking for a list of what is different then yes.

On 08/01/13 02:21, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> so Rsync would be a better solution in this case?
> 
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net 
> <mailto:kmk at sanitarium.net>> wrote:
> 
> lsyncd is for real time syncing.  Whenever something gets changed
> it would spawn an rsync to update the other copy.
> 
> On 08/01/13 02:18, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
>> At this point im debating if rsync is the right tool. I am
>> trying to determine if lsyncd which is based on rsync would do
>> the trick.
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>> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net
> <mailto:kmk at sanitarium.net>
>> <mailto:kmk at sanitarium.net <mailto:kmk at sanitarium.net>>> wrote:
> 
>> I don't know if conflicting is really the right word but it is a 
>> list of differences.  I wouldn't bother with the snapshot unless 
>> you are going to process the list and then do the real sync.
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>> On 08/01/13 02:10, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
>>> I was thinking of using an lvm snapshot. all i really need is 
>>> just a list of the conflicting files to be emailed in a
>>> report.
> 
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>>> On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net
> <mailto:kmk at sanitarium.net>
>> <mailto:kmk at sanitarium.net <mailto:kmk at sanitarium.net>>
>>> <mailto:kmk at sanitarium.net <mailto:kmk at sanitarium.net>
> <mailto:kmk at sanitarium.net <mailto:kmk at sanitarium.net>>>> wrote:
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>>> It would tell you what rsync would have done without the 
>>> --dry-run and why it would have done it.  But it can't
>>> guarantee that nothing will change between the dry run and the
>>> real run. Of course if your source is a snapshotted filesystem
>>> that won't matter.
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>>> On 08/01/13 01:59, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
>>>> I am in the process of writing a script on some testing 
>>>> machines and I am wondering if having it perform a dry run
>>>> and itemized the items if it would provide a list of
>>>> differences such as file size and name etc conflicts
> 
>>>> -- Jonathan Aquilina
> 
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>>> -- Jonathan Aquilina
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>> -- Jonathan Aquilina
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> -- Jonathan Aquilina

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