On 7/11/25 5:09 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 7/11/25 1:59 PM, Go Canes wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM Robert Moskowitz via users
<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
rsync -tvz rsync.ietf.org::id-archive/*.txt /home/common/ietf/drafts
So you are rsyncing off the internet? In that case I think your main
option is the suggestion to use rsync with --dry-run, but in that case
if there are new files, you are doing all the non-download work twice
(unless you capture and process the output and then rsync individual
files). I'm not sure it is worth the effort....
The original message didn't say anything about it being over the
internet. In that case, there is no way to do what you want. The
only way to know if there are changes is to run the rsync. And if you
have to run it anyway, what's the point of checking for changes first?
I have downloaded, over the Internet from IETF, using their rsync
service for lots of years. I had a small hand in setting this up.
But here I am working with a few servers on my local net, going to my
local NAS. All Linux.
I naturally fell to rsync as I have been using it for lots of decades
for lots of things. This is the first time, though I am am running
rsyncd (on the NAS). I trust all systems involved.
Some cases there are just a few files to copy (BIND zone files) that
change, well, once in a while.
Some cases there are a lot of files that are updated every week, but not
every day.
So I wonder, can I do this smarter with rsync, and it appears it is not
worth the candle. rsync handles that very large Internet Draft download
every night.
But a chance to maybe learn a bit more.
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