Hi, On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2008-10-18 at 19:19 +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
To test how far you will come down is size before downloading anything, rsync has the dryrun parameter.
Ah, didn't know that, thankyou. I'll try doing some tests.
The correct parameter is --dry-run or -n. You need to create the upmost destination directory by hand before using it; --dry-run really does run "dry", without changing anything locally. Viele Grüße Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org) -- Eberhard Mönkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: emoenke@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1551 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumair Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Christian Griesinger Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 -------------------------------------------------------------------------