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Is there a way to set rsync excludes by filesize? I already do excludes by a wild card on the name but I needed something a bit more sophisticated this time around. I have files with the extension .nc (netcdf files) which tend to be huge before the users post-process them. I want all files with a .nc extension excluded if they are, say, 100+ MB in size. Is there a way to do this via rsync?

I had a recent disaster scenario with rsync. I was wondering if there were any suggestions to guard against in the future: I used to maintain "mirror" backups of the /home dir on our production_server using rsync to a backup_server. The primary server had a rsyncd daemon running and the backup_server had this line in the crontab: 10 01 * * * rsync -av --delete root at

Is there a way to know from the rsync logs how long it took to do a backup? The only timing info,. I see is this at the end: sent 3067328 bytes received 7853035429 bytes 1187888.83 bytes/sec total size is 1559866450336 speedup is 198.55 Can I use it to figure out how long the operation took? Does the above mean it took 2.5 secs of send time and 1.8 hours of recieve time so (roughly) the

Is there a way to speed up rsync by opening more than one daemon in parallel. I use rsync --daemon to start rsync. I was wondering if opening more than one instance is recommended or feasible? I know that for services like nfs for example I have had opening many instances improve performance. I have 4 cores available so if there are any other parallization modes I'd be glad to know since I

I cannot figure out where I am going wrong with my excluded files syntax! rsync backups up those folders I'm trying to exclude. rsync -av --exclude-from=/etc/rsync_excluded.conf --delete root@polaris::polhome /pol_home_bkup cat /etc/rsync_excluded.conf - /home/agokhale - /home/anand - /home/asalazar etc. These are all top level folders with the same names. On the rsync server

I am using rsync to keep a mirror of my 800GB /home (server1). The backup machine is a separate server (servr2). Currently I am running rsync daemon on server2 and invoking rsync daily via cron on server2. Are there design / performance considerations that influence which machine is made the server and which the client? Also, Is the rsync daemon the preferred way to o this backup? I can also

While trying to find a strategy to avoid duplicating renamed files and folders I came across threads about a "dtetect-renamed" option. This was a patch back in 2006 but I cannot find much about it later. Was this aborted? Are there any other ways of smart-ly detecting renames? -- Rahul