[svlug] Restrict rsync operation to daylight hours

[David Roseman]

Chris,

That's my plan right now:  Feed rsync one file at a time.

Files will be backup up at the source before fetching, as you suggest.

My sysadmin has disabled scp, opting for sftp instead.  He also prefers 
rsync.  One of his concerns is security:  The source machine is outside of 
our firewall.

Thanks again,
Dave

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Dave Roseman
droseman at hotmail.com

>David Roseman writes:
>
> > * I would like granularity of one file: The files are 33 MB long.
>
>Okay, that's pretty easy. Just write a shell script that does one file
>at a time, and only does it if there is the right amount of free space
>left on the volume.
>
> > * Possible failures: Corrupted or empty files are unacceptable.  It's
> > got to be all or nothing.
>
>I wonder if rsync is really the right tool for you. Are you copying
>files that have been updated, or files that are brand new? If the
>latter, you can just use scp directly. Either way, you should move/copy
>the old file to a safe place before fetching the new (someone else
>suggested a temp folder).
>
>
>--
>Chris Palmer     Systems Administrator     Electronic Frontier Foundation
>

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