From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 13 20:57:33 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 5DCD216A4CE for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:57:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccimhc02.asp.att.net (sccimhc02.asp.att.net [63.240.76.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 182EA43D31 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:57:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david.fleck@mchsi.com) Received: from grond (12-216-14-105.client.mchsi.com[12.216.14.105]) by sccimhc02.asp.att.net (sccimhc02) with SMTP id <20040414035732im200f2tn5e>; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 03:57:32 +0000 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:57:31 -0500 (CDT) From: David Fleck Sender: dcf@grond.sourballs.org To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20040413224607.O5427@grond.sourballs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: mirroring: cvsup vs. rsync 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: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 03:57:33 -0000 Sorry, only tangentially a *BSD question, as it involves CVSup.... I'm trying to set up a mirror of a CVS repository at a remote site. The repository has 1000's of fairly small files, and is about 75MB in total size. This seemed like an obvious job for CVSup, so I got a recent version (16.1h) of the sources, built and installed on 2 Red Hat machines, one local and one remote, set up the server directories and files, and wrote a supfile for the client. It seems to work ok. The thing that surprises me is that I also tried mirroring the same repository with rsync (using the -az options), and rsync is *much* faster, so far the speed increases for rsync are on the order of 5X. This makes me wonder if I'm using CVSup right. I'm not using anything but default settings for cvsupd (except for -b); is there some common set of options that would give me a noticable speed increase? Any suggestions welcomed, thanks. -- David Fleck david.fleck@mchsi.com