Re: Rsync and different sizes

["Valerio Daelli" <valerio.daelli@gmail.com>]

I'd suggest:

find MYSRCDIR -type f -exec md5sum {} \;|sort>SRC
find MYDESTDIR -type f -exec md5sum {} \;|sort>DEST

wc -l SRC;wc -l DEST
diff SRC DEST

may take a bit too long, ti depends...
Also in every rsync run you should check the last lines

'sent 16431711 bytes  received 7000 bytes  2191828.13 bytes/sec
total size is 22209204615  speedup is 1351.03'

and the exit status (man rsync EXIT STATUS).
Bye

Valerio



On 10/19/06, Daniele P. <debian@tovel.it> wrote:
> On Thursday 19 October 2006 12:15, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote:
> > Actually it's the original that's bigger, here's the rsync-command I
> > use:
> >
> >  rsync -aizH --delete --stats  --password-file=/etc/rsyncd.pass
> > username@host::rsyncshare/* /destinationdir
>
> Using '*' you could miss directories and files starting with a dot.
>
> > I also get "SIGUSR1 or SIGINT " error on a lot of syncs, got any idea
> > what's causing this?
>
> Maybe a cat walking on the keyboard?
>
> However this could be interesting too:
>
> >The bakcup-server runs on xfs and the local rsync-server runs on ext3
> >if  that can have anything to do with anything....
>
> It seem's that the size of empty directory is file system dependant:
> $ mkdir dir-on-xfs
> $ mkdir dir-on-ext3
> $ du -b dir-on-xfs
> 6       dir-on-xfs
> $ stat dir-on-xfs | grep Size
> Size: 6               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   directory
> $ du -b dir-on-ext3
> 4096    dir-on-ext3
> $ stat dir-on-ext3 | grep Size
> Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
>
> So, if you want to check your backup, don't rely on du but use md5sum
> and/or sha1sum on the files.
>
> Regards,
> Daniele
>
>
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