OT: system migrations or backups and rsync

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:06:03PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> Currently, I'm doing a migration between SuSE 9.0 Professional to SLES10,
> and the version of rsync on the 9.0 box was inadequate and froze in the
> middle of tbe "Building file list..." process.  Further checks in more
> verbose modes after ruling out other factors showed that rsync itself was
> hanging for no apparent reason.  Got and built a new version of rsync that
> matched the SLES10 version (actually it supercedes it a bit, although SuSE
> may have made equivalent patches in theirs), and it started working as it
> should.
> 
> I'm dealing with 38GB of data (much of it fP and fP-derived, hence the
> relevance) in this one run, so it was a bit of an educated guess as to
> whether it was just taking an appropriately long time or getting stuck.  It
> -was- getting stuck, and I can confirm that.
> 
> I've had issues with rsync versions not being compatible enough and doing
> odd things before.  This time was really annoying, however.  Figured I'd
> save others the aggravation if I could.

So this isn't the "rsync 3.x builds its file list in realtime vs rsync
2 had to build the whole thing first" problem?

Cheers,
-- jra
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