rsync - Sep 2005 - Question about Domino NSF files

I use Rsync to backup 53Gb worth of nsf files from a domino wintel based
server, to a linux server. This works fine, however when trying to use cp
?al to make incremental copies, each copy always ends up being 53Gb in size.
I?m not sure if this is because the files are in use by the domino server at
the time of the backup or if there is some other reason.

Has anybody else come across this or know of a possible solution?


Thanks,
Max

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On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:48:39PM -0500, Max Kipness
wrote:
> This works fine, however when trying to use cp -al to make incremental
> copies, each copy always ends up being 53Gb in size.
How are you measuring that?  If you use "du" on individual directory
hierarchies, it will always report the full size of all the files
contained therein.  It is only when you du the parent directory of the
hierarchies that du will elide any files that were mentioned in prior
dirs.  For instance:

% cp -al one two
% du one two
9.6M    one
9.6M    two
% du .
9.6M    ./one
0       ./two
9.6M

..wayne..