non-existing parent directories
hello, is there a way for rsync to create non-existing parent directories when syncing files to a destination? something similar to 'mkdir -p non-existing/directory'. i'm doing 'rsync -r /path/to/source /path/to/non-existing/directory', and the 'non-existing/directory' location doesn't exist. the errors i get is... rsync: mkdir /path/to/non-existing/directory', failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(381) rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359) thanks -- Darin Perusich Unix Systems Administrator Cognigen Corporation 395 Youngs Rd. Williamsville, NY 14221 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
track a stolen laptop via rsync
My wife's Windows XP laptop was stolen a couple days ago. Every night the computer automatically preforms an rsync to a Debian Linux computer (the dumb-dumbs didn't steal that). My question: if the laptop successfully connects to the Linux box can you think of anyway I can use this fact to track the computer (maybe an IP address from its location., etc.)? By they way I could really care less about the 2-year old laptop, I'm trying to send these guys to jail and/or recover my wife's jewelry. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/track-a-stolen-laptop-via-rsync-tf2475517.html#a6903656 Sent from the Samba - rsync mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: track a stolen laptop via rsync
On Thu, 2006-10-19 12:19:57 -0700, jerrytown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My wife's Windows XP laptop was stolen a couple days ago. Every night the computer automatically preforms an rsync to a Debian Linux computer (the dumb-dumbs didn't steal that). My question: if the laptop successfully connects to the Linux box can you think of anyway I can use this fact to track the computer (maybe an IP address from its location., etc.)? Sure. Get the IP address and the exact timestamps of the session. Then use whois to find out about the carrier this IP address belongs to. Then email their abuse account (usually [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and ask them for help. If they're unwilling (most probably), go to the nearest police station with your evidence. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-172-7608481 Signature of: Ich hatte in letzter Zeit ein bißchen viel Realitycheck. the second : Langsam möchte ich mal wieder weiterträumen können. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: non-existing parent directories
On 10/19/06, Darin Perusich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way for rsync to create non-existing parent directories when syncing files to a destination? something similar to 'mkdir -p non-existing/directory'. i'm doing 'rsync -r /path/to/source /path/to/non-existing/directory', and the 'non-existing/directory' location doesn't exist. Rsync will only create the top-level destination directory, not its parents. So just run an appropriate mkdir -p command before rsync. If this needs to happen on the remote host of a transfer over SSH, pass rsync something like --rsync-path=mkdir -p /path/to/non-existing/directory rsync. Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Logging only files transferred not directories
Hello, I'm running my rsynce server on Win2k3 Server. One client under Linux and another on Win2k3 Server. The problem is not really OS related though. My Server 2k3 client command is: C:\Progra~1\cwRsync\bin\rsync -rtv --ignore-errors --stats --delete --delete-during --delete-excluded --link-dest=/cygdrive/d/previous/c/backup.1 --files-from=files-from.txt --exclude-from=exclude-from.txt src dst Before running I cycle the directories keeping the last 30 so the last sync is in backup.1 and then I use the hard links feature. This all works just fine and I can successfully keep about 30 copies of about 200GB of data in 600GB of space. However, the resulting output from rsync shows every directory as being new (since technically it is). If the backups aren't rotated, the directories already exist and as such aren't printed. E.g. this is what I get CVS/cvsrepo/EDMI/1560-Cal System Equipment/ CVS/cvsrepo/EDMI/1560-Cal System Equipment/CVS/ CVS/cvsrepo/EDMI/1560-Cal System Equipment/Z11-Frontend/ CVS/cvsrepo/EDMI/1560-Cal System Equipment/Z11-Frontend/calib.cpp,v CVS/cvsrepo/EDMI/1560-Cal System Equipment/Z11-Frontend/calib.h,v CVS/cvsrepo/EDMI/1560-Cal System Equipment/Z11-Frontend/history.txt,v CVS/cvsrepo/EDMI/1560-Cal System Equipment/Z12-Calibration Database/ CVS/cvsrepo/EDMI/1560-Cal System Equipment/Z12-Calibration Database/CVS/ CVS/cvsrepo/EDMI/1560-Cal System Equipment/Z13-MiniCrunch2/ CVS/cvsrepo/EDMI/1560-Cal System Equipment/Z13-MiniCrunch2/CVS/ CVS/cvsrepo/EDMI/1560-Cal System Equipment/Z14-Crunch2k4/ CVS/cvsrepo/EDMI/1560-Cal System Equipment/Z14-Crunch2k4/CVS/ Is there any way to keep the verbosity high enough to print the transferred files only? Otherwise every log file I get basically contains a complete directory structure making it rather large and also somewhat difficult to see where the backup is spending time... In the above example, I'd only want to see: CVS/cvsrepo/EDMI/1560-Cal System Equipment/Z11-Frontend/calib.cpp,v CVS/cvsrepo/EDMI/1560-Cal System Equipment/Z11-Frontend/calib.h,v CVS/cvsrepo/EDMI/1560-Cal System Equipment/Z11-Frontend/history.txt,v Suggestions? Thanks CH -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: track a stolen laptop via rsync
On 10/19/06, Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-10-19 12:19:57 -0700, jerrytown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My wife's Windows XP laptop was stolen a couple days ago. Every night the computer automatically preforms an rsync to a Debian Linux computer (the dumb-dumbs didn't steal that). My question: if the laptop successfully connects to the Linux box can you think of anyway I can use this fact to track the computer (maybe an IP address from its location., etc.)? Sure. Get the IP address and the exact timestamps of the session. Then use whois to find out about the carrier this IP address belongs to. Then email their abuse account (usually [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and ask them for help. If they're unwilling (most probably), go to the nearest police station with your evidence. MfG, JBG I suppose this is way off topic, but anyway The police may not be much help since they are probably more concerned with more important cases. Though, you definitely need to file a police report. If the ISP will not help you, which is probably not likely, find yourself a lawyer. A lawyer will be able to use the courts to compel the ISP to reveal the identity of the person on their network (probably using something like the John Doe lawsuits the RIAA is using against file-sharers). You probably won't get to send them to jail since [me thinks] this would be a civil case, but you might be able to recover some of what was stolen. -- Aaron W Morris (decep) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: Logging only files transferred not directories
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 08:59:04AM +1000, Christian Hack wrote: Is there any way to keep the verbosity high enough to print the transferred files only? You can just filter the output, via some equivalent of this: rsync ...CMD... | grep -v '/$' That discards every line that ends in a slash (which are the dirs). ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: Logging only files transferred not directories
On 10/19/06, Wayne Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rsync ...CMD... | grep -v '/$' OK, that accomplishes what Christian literally asked for, but it might be useful to show the directories that actually changed since the previous backup. Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
RE: Logging only files transferred not directories
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt McCutchen Sent: Friday, 20 October 2006 10:45 AM To: Wayne Davison Cc: Christian Hack; rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: Logging only files transferred not directories On 10/19/06, Wayne Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rsync ...CMD... | grep -v '/$' OK, that accomplishes what Christian literally asked for, but it might be useful to show the directories that actually changed since the previous backup. Linux client is an easy fix then. I'll have to get cygwin grep to play nicely with my windows batch file I guess - I don't think I can pipe can I? Currently I just the output into a text file along with a lot of other info like times etc which is emailed when it's finished. *nix is so much nicer for this sort of thing... Matt: Yes it wouldn't show new/renamed directories but only if they were empty, right? If they had new files as well, you'd see they existed. If the directory changed (i.e. files in it changed) it would show up too. I'm not concerned about directories changing really unless I'm missing something you're thinking of Matt. For me it's more the files that are changing, so the grep solution will probably do what *I* want. Thanks CH -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
