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RSync DemopartyKeeping the party vibes going with Teo's DJ set from Saturday evening. Enjoy some schmancy techno stuff while watching the prizegiving countdown.
@calmeilles yes try to exclude or delete (privacy?) cached files before #rsync (?) #backup it is too much clutter
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Areskul
Oliver Kennedy
Matthew MalthouseWhy some backups need to use the delete option. ๐คฃ
~ $ du -sh /home/matthew/.cache/
6.7G /home/matthew/.cache/
~ $ du -sh /backup/matthew/.cache/
879G /backup/matthew/.cache/
The second du took 1ยฝ hours!
Mark T. Tomczak"Hi rsync! I'd like to make two directories the same, please. Can you do that? I named the directories quite specifically and put a trailing slash and everything."
"Hi Mark! No-can-do, buddy! Even though you mentioned exactly one directory on both sides, you didn't use the -r flag! So I'm gonna skip those completely because I consider it 'recursion' to enter the only directory named! This is because my ergonomics were designed by Satan Himself, Lord Of Lies!"
We still have a few compo recordings in the backlog and today we can release the PC Demo Compo.
Thank you all for your entries !
RSync 2026 - PC Demo Compo
FLOSSbOxIN@SpaciousCoder78
Exactky. Manjaro is good, but again the same issues as KDE or any heavy weight stuff. My laptop burned out most of the times.
Debian is the mos stable and even when it breaks, it is easy to get back the whole thing.
Although I have never been able to get my head around how to do the #rsync on any of the distros. Much too complicated for me. lols
Did you try #sparkylinux or #mxlinux yet? MX is so much better. I also keep hopping on to #rockylinux
Simon JosefssonBackup of S3 Objects Using rsnapshot #backups #s3 #rsnapshot #rsync https://blog.josefsson.org/2026/01/18/backup-of-s3-objects-using-rsnapshot/
alip#sydbox uses the glob(7) matcher of #rsync which was originally written in 1986(!). As a 40th birthday present I rewrote the code using Kirk Krauss's FastWildCompare algorithm achieving a speedup of almost 50%. Happy birthday rsync! I hope to rewrite the code back to c and contribute it to the rsync project: https://developforperformance.com/MatchingWildcards_AnImprovedAlgorithmForBigData.html #exherbo #linux