Richard Owlett wrote: > Question 1 > [...] > Question 2. > When it ran I happened to be sitting by the display and noticed things > of the form: >> >> var/log/lightdm/x-2.log.old >> 963 100% 2.32kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#88022, to-chk=21/128033) >> var/log/speech-dispatcher/ >> var/mail/ >> var/opt/ >> var/spool/ >> var/spool/mail -> ../mail >> var/spool/anacron/ >> var/spool/anacron/cron.daily >> 9 100% 0.02kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#88023, to-chk=14/128033) > > Do the lines not followed by statistics just mean "0 length files" or > "it's just a link"?
You mean like "var/mail/" having nothing, and "var/spool/anacron/cron.daily" having 9 100% [...] The former is a directory (and unchanged). The latter is a file that (appears to have) had a 9 byte update. > > At the end it said: > >> > * Number of files: 128,033 (reg: 88,026, dir: 7,503, link: 32,466, dev: > 37, special: 1)* > * Number of created files: 127,995 (reg: 88,026, dir: 7,503, link: > 32,466)*> Number of deleted files: 0 > [...] > * sent 2,845,135,440 bytes received 1,819,035 bytes 2,837,024.89 > bytes/sec * > > The high-lited lines caught my attention. > I take the first two seem just to report that rsync is copying > intelligently. Yep, pretty much it's: Line 1 -> 128,033 files on the side initiating the sync Line 2 -> 127,995 files needed to be created / updated > I don't understand what the third is telling me when there is a > difference between bytes sent and received. I assume it is benign as the > was no error reported. IIRC it's bytes we sent to the other end, and bytes the other end sent back to us (ACKs, other stuff). I've got a big guide on rsync around here somewhere, will send a link if I dig it up. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
