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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:52:47 +0100
From: Keith Moore <keithmo AT exmsft DOT com>
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CC: Wayne Davison <wayned AT samba DOT org>
Subject: Re: 1.5.13-1 rsync data corruption
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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


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