Hi,

Thankyou for emailing. I am sorry that it has taken me this long to get
back to you.

I think that this is an interesting idea and will probably provide the
best solution. I think that I understand how to use find, but wc doesn't
that give a word count.  Could you give me an example of how to do this?

Thanks,
Al


On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Stefan 'Kaishakunin' Schumacher wrote:

> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:59:57 +0200
> From: Stefan 'Kaishakunin' Schumacher <stefan@net-tex.de>
> To: DataZap <az@datazap.net>
> Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: OT: rsync issues
>
> Also sprach DataZap (az@datazap.net)
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think that this is a little off topic, but I know that someone on thi=
s
> > list probably has an answer for me. I googled, but I still can't seem t=
o
> > find an example of how to do this.
> >
> > I just updated rsync on both of my servers and deleted all the files of=
f
> > the backup. I was then able to backup the main server without any
> > problems, but when I went to run rsync again, it gives me an out of mem=
ory
> > error. What I would like to do is write a shell script that would call
> > rsync, but only have it backup a small part of the files at a time unti=
l
> > all of the files are backed up. I have not been able to find an example=
 of
> > this. Does anyone have any ideas on how this could be done?
>
> Rsync supports excellent include/exclude options with RegExes. You
> just have to generate those lists to copy the data piecewise to the
> destination.
>
> You could use find(1) and wc to generate lists that work.
>
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