Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4243289F.6000705@exmsft.com> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:52:47 +0100 From: Keith Moore User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: Wayne Davison Subject: Re: 1.5.13-1 rsync data corruption References: <42364689.6020501@exmsft.com> <20050319164547.GA14076@blorf.net> <423C90DF.6070408@exmsft.com> In-Reply-To: <423C90DF.6070408@exmsft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: bd47eb33e10cdf15d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bc7498e603a4ab1d89cc4a05c3eda626b4350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-IsSubscribed: yes Keith Moore wrote: > Wayne Davison wrote: > > >>There is a fix in the upcoming 2.6.4 for the -z option of rsync when >>transferring large files (those whose blocksize go past 64K). If you >>can, build either the 2.6.4pre3 release (listed on the web site) or the >>latest nightly tar file (which has a couple extra minor fixes in it): >> >>http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/nightly/rsync-HEAD-20050319-1628GMT.tar.gz >> >>It is the sending side that needs to have this fixed version (if you >>can't apply it to both sides). I would appreciate knowing if that >>fixes the problem for you. > > > I'll give it a shot tonight. I installed the nightly tarball version in Cygwin and on my Fedora 3 box. The incremental backups work great now. Also, FWIW, data transfer "feels" a bit faster. (I sent this privately to Wayne a couple of days ago. My normal email server has been acting flakey; hopefully this will actually work now...) KM -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/