Re: Can rsync monitor a file system?

2006-06-27 Thread Stuart Halliday
Maybe you need Unison rather than rsync? http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ -- Stuart Halliday ECS Technology ltd Registered in Scotland - #212513 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: rsync@lists.samba.org Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:47:17 -0400 Subject: Can rsync

Re: Can rsync monitor a file system?

2006-06-27 Thread Martin Schröder
2006/6/27, Stuart Halliday [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe you need Unison rather than rsync? http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Or if you are using Linux, drdb (http://www.drbd.org/)? Best Martin PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting :-( -- To unsubscribe or change options:

Re: Can rsync monitor a file system?

2006-06-27 Thread Christoph Biedl
Tim H wrote... what about scripts running every 30 seconds on each machine, thats lighter then rsync just to compare.. eg. Server1 ls -lR /* ~/files1 scp files1 SERVER2:~ Server2 ls -lR /* ~/files2 (do a diff command here on files1 vs. files2) (if different,

Re: Can rsync monitor a file system?

2006-06-27 Thread Charles . Berman
How would you set a cron to run every 30 seconds? Otherwise it could work for me. __ Charles Berman Senior Unix Administrator Think Globally Tim H

Re: Can rsync monitor a file system?

2006-06-27 Thread Daniel Laffien
Hi there, I'm using the FAM tool FILESCHANGED with a small script, that calls RSYNC delayed after FILESCHANGED reports a changed file in a tree, maybe this is useful for you. fileschanged -r -t 10 [path] | while read file; do rsync [path] done I'm sycing the whole tree and not the

Re: Can rsync monitor a file system?

2006-06-27 Thread Christoph Biedl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... How would you set a cron to run every 30 seconds? Otherwise it could work for me. With a start every 30 seconds you're in the high risk an an overrun. Don't do cron, use a simple shell script with while true; and sleep 30. But believe me, this is a bad idea.

Re: no true incrementals with rsync?

2006-06-27 Thread tim h
I tried compare-dest... does it automatically hardlink, or does link-dest hardlink or both? may my problem is I tested on a cygwin windose macine and there is no linking. On 6/26/06, Wayne Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:15:38AM -0700, tim594 wrote: With traditional

RE: Re: Can rsync monitor a file system?

2006-06-27 Thread tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... How would you set a cron to run every 30 seconds? Otherwise it could work for me. With a start every 30 seconds you're in the high risk an an overrun. Possibly saved by max connections =1 or such. Don't do cron, use a simple shell script

Re: Rsync dies with Invalid file index: error message

2006-06-27 Thread Frank Fegert
Wayne, Frank Fegert wrote: Wayne, thanks for your prompt response! [self-inflicted pain snipped] thanks for your help, but never mind! As usual, the problem was sitting in front of the keyboard, between the headphones ;-) For security reasons i use a wrapper script on the sending machine,

Re: Re: Can rsync monitor a file system?

2006-06-27 Thread Tim H
couldnt you do something like this?: always running.sh--- while true do if file not exists isrunning.txt sh checkfiles.sh sleep 30 done checkfiles.sh--- # compare dirlist here if [ need to run rsync ] and [file not exist isrunning.txt] touch isrunning.txt rsync .

Re: no true incrementals with rsync?

2006-06-27 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:02:49AM -0700, tim h wrote: I tried compare-dest... does it automatically hardlink, or does link-dest hardlink or both? Just --link-dest uses hard-links. Using --compare-dest just omits matching files from the destination that are up-to-date in the compare-dest

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 3845] Add --remove-source-files

2006-06-27 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3845 --- Comment #2 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-06-27 22:59 MST --- Is there a possible ETA for this feature? It would nicely solve the problem I have with files getting left over after a GPRS link goes down in mid-transfer. My current,