[KLUG Members] help with rsync

[Buist Justin]

If you're using rsync to minimize data transfer then that's probably not the way to go.   In order for rsync to build up it's delta information to sync files together it has to examine both the files in their entirety.

Justin Buist


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rinaldi J. Montessi [mailto:chief-curmudgeon@subdimension.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 7:12 PM
> To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] help with rsync
> 
> 
> Adam Williams wrote:
> > 
> > >>I'm trying to setup rsync to backup the /warehouse 
> directory on comA to a
> > >>local /warehouse. I have tried the following command from 
> the man page as
> > >>root, but I get permission denied.  I believe I need to 
> be root since the
> > >>files are owned by multiple users, don't I? What is the 
> best way to do
> > >>this and not break security?
> > >>rsync -avz --delete comA:/warehouse/ /warehouse
> > >rsync -avz --delete [this runs as remote 
> root@]comA:/warehouse/ /warehouse
> > >Is root a valid remote user for your rsynch user?
> > 
> > A presentation on rsync would be nice.
> > 
> > Has anyone used this to sync between a laptop (/home/awilliam) and a
> > workstation/server (/home/awilliam)?
> 
> I mount the remote drive using nfs and then 
> 
> rsync -alrux --delete / /mnt/remote
> 
> Rinaldi
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