From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 13 21:44:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DD1916A4CE for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:44:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out008.verizon.net (out008pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AC0B43D5D for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:44:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.160.193.218]) by out008.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040913214450.UXOS8960.out008.verizon.net@[192.168.1.3]>; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:44:50 -0500 Message-ID: <414614C3.6080803@mac.com> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:44:35 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian McCann References: <2b5f066d040913135816c2e950@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2b5f066d040913135816c2e950@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out008.verizon.net from [68.160.193.218] at Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:44:50 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rsync problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:44:52 -0000 Brian McCann wrote: > Hi all...I'm having problems using rsync, and it makes no sense to me. > I'm running it with the following options: "rsync -e ssh -avpz > --delete src dest". Whenever the src has lots of files (over 1000), > it seams to just stop, verbose mode doesn't tell me anything > relevant...and if i try again, it will just download more, then stop > again. Any guesses anyone? Maybe you are too impatient. :-) If you pass rsync a very large tree of files, it takes a long time-- several minutes up to an hour or more-- to traverse and note timestamps, file-sizes, checksums, etc before it does anything. If you get output, and then a big pause, it is probably finding a bunch of stuff which matches and does not need to be copied (but it still has to look at timestamps and maybe do checksums). -- -Chuck