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Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers
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edgar . soldin |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers |
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Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:04:58 +0200 |
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maybe we should add a --rsync-options switch for advanced users?
..ede
On 31.08.2011 13:30, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> It would be feasible to help with resuming uploads, but it would have to be a
> special case for rsync.
>
> ...Ken
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:11 AM, <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
> wrote:
>
> I am not familiar enough with the duplicity resume process. Would this be
> feasible?
>
> ede/duply.net <http://duply.net>
>
>
> On 30.08.2011 21:24, Eliot Moss wrote:
> > On 8/30/2011 1:11 PM, address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >>> What some respondents are not realizing (because I probably did not
> >>> make it clear), I am not necessarily talking about the case where
> >>> duplicity is run a second (or third, or whatever) time, but when the
> >>> rsync backend has a network problem and tries to send the *same*
> >>> volume file again.
> >>
> >> crystal clear to me.
> >>
> >>> --partial would be very reasonable in such a case.
> >>
> >> Not all backends support resuming in protocol so it might proof more
> complex to implement.... Ede / duply.net <http://duply.net>
> >
> > Hmmm ... at present it retries the rsync command some
> > number of times before failing out of duplicity. I am
> > only suggesting that the rsync back end be set up to
> > use rsync's --partial feature, merely because it is there
> > and would work transparently to help file transfer
> > retry for that back end. I agree that with the diversity
> > of back ends, there is probably not a general solution
> > to saving a partial transmission when retrying the
> > transmission of a volume. (Some ftp's can restart,
> > but rsync has the capability to check that the already
> > transmitted bytes are the same (or similar) and to reuse
> > what was there before, in rsync's normal way of comparing
> > source and destination.)
> >
> > So I don't think this is at all hard to implement. All that
> > is required is to add this to the rsync command line:
> >
> > --partial-dir=.rsync-partial
> >
> > Best wishes -- Eliot
>
>
- [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Eliot Moss, 2011/08/29
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Nate Eldredge, 2011/08/29
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, edgar . soldin, 2011/08/30
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Chris Poole, 2011/08/30
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Eliot Moss, 2011/08/30
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, edgar . soldin, 2011/08/30
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Eliot Moss, 2011/08/30
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, edgar . soldin, 2011/08/31
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Kenneth Loafman, 2011/08/31
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers,
edgar . soldin <=
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Eliot Moss, 2011/08/31
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, edgar . soldin, 2011/08/31
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Eliot Moss, 2011/08/31
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, edgar . soldin, 2011/08/31
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, Eliot Moss, 2011/08/31
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity and partial rsync transfers, edgar . soldin, 2011/08/31
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