I had to change my script to use one rsync run per drive. otherwise
my player would crash, even when using swap. Now that have had
a memory upgrade, it isn't necessary anymore, but I left it the way it
is. It's probably a tad faster as well.

Code:

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#!/bin/sh

rsyncserver=192.168.101.1
modulename=empegfids

set -x
killall -INT player

# only remount if drives are mounted read-only
if grep -q "/dev/hd.4.* ro " /proc/mounts
then
        remount=true
else
        remount=false
fi

sleep 5
test $remount = true && sh -x rwm
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up
for i in 0 1
do
        rsync \
                $@ \
                --times \
                --stats \
                --delete \
                --verbose \
                --progress \
                --recursive \
                --empeg-progress \
                --copy-unsafe-links \
                --block-size=100000 \
                --exclude=rsync \
                ${rsyncserver}::${modulename}/drive${i} /
done
test $remount = true && sh -x rom

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killall is not included on the player. I got it from debian.
rsync itself is excluded in my script; that's because I sync
all my tools from empegfids::drive0/local/bin

Pim