What is it doing?

[Perry Smith]

A friend and I noticed the --times or --archive flag.  I have not
stopped it yet but I'll add that flag (probably --times).

This is the first time so it must be #2.

The side issuing the command is a Mac using rsync version 2.6.9
protocol version 29.  The other side is AIX using rsync version 3.1.0
protocol version 31 (that I built myself).

I don't mind recompiling rsync on the Mac side if you think that would
improve things.

I was trying to find some type of scratch file or something but could
not.  I'm curious, where is the index kept?

Thank you for your help
Perry

On Jan 13, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote:

> Signed PGP part
> First, don't run rsync without either --times or --archive.  Without
> that rsync won't copy timestamps and it won't be able to tell what is
> changed when you run it again.
> 
> Second, if rsync isn't copying anything then there are 2 reasons...
> 1. You already have most of the files copied and it is going through
> them looking for a file that needs updating
> 2. You are using rsync version 2 where all files had to be indexed
> before it copied anything.
> 
> On 01/13/2014 03:06 PM, Perry Smith wrote:
> > This is my first time to really use rsync.  I did small tests to
> > get the arguments like I wanted and then kicked off the big rsync
> > about 2 and a half hours ago.  So far, it has not copied over any
> > files.
> >
> > The command I used is:
> >
> > rsync \ --relative \ --recursive \ --copy-links \
> > host:/glob/that/matches/about/eighty/./directories \
> > /local/target/dir
> >
> > The list of directories are all full of symbolic links that point
> > off to NFS mounted file systems.  I don't expect it to complete
> > today but I do have to stop it each day at the end of the work day.
> > But it worries me that it has yet to copy over any files.
> >
> > Is it really making progress?  Or will it take this long to really
> > start copying files over each day I start it?
> >
> > I expect the total amount copied to be about 400G and about 4
> > million files.
> >
> > It is possible to break this up into pieces if that would help.
> >
> > Thank you for your help and advice, Perry
> >
> >
> >
> 
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