On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:32:42PM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote: >First, the background. Redhat made some whacky changes to thier directory >structure AFTER I had successfully mirrored the old structure. > >Second, I use rsync. What rsync options are you using? there should be some options for deleting old files, excluding certain patterns etc. > >So, I looked at where RH moved the directories and did the following: > ># cd /path/to/old ># tar -cf - . | (cd /path/to/new; tar -xf -) > >This is just a fancy "mv" command that is much faster. > >Anyways when I ran rsync, it thinks /path/to/new is "different" and proceeded >to leech everything from RH's main mirror. Bandwidth burn! What do you mean it thinks the /path/to/new is "different"? How is it different, this may have something to do with the rsync options used. > >So, > ># cd /path/to/ ># mv old /path/to/new >< crunch crunch > > >Rsync again. Same thing. > >Any ideas? I really don't want to suck down the whole thing again. > >-- >Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 >http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 >Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9 > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list Happy hacking, -- Thomas J. Hudak Systems Administrator Sistina Software Inc. - www.sistina.com Phone: 612.379.3951 Page: 612.318.1967 Fax: 612.379.3952 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010202/8fa70787/attachment.pgp