Re: strange rsync error message from our backup script

2004-06-16 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:54:34AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:00:56AM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: make_bak_dir mkdir /backup/naxos.premier-lnc.com/2004-06-09/home/ddegrolard/profile/Local Settings/Application Data failed: File exists This is a bug

Re: Rsync for program loading on embedded platforms

2004-06-16 Thread Greger Cronquist
Hi again, This issue solved itself rather annoyingly since we use flash memory in our newer devices (which had slipped my mind). So we must erase the memory first and then load. Cheers, Greger Donovan Baarda wrote: G'day, From: Greger Cronquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] compiled binaries are

Re: trigger command on successful upload?

2004-06-16 Thread Alun
Wayne Davison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yup, I was thinking the same thing. One way to make your feature safer would be to turn it into a config-file setting (and leave the script outside the download/upload area). Since a non-daemon setup should be able

Re: Problem with transfering files between Solaris and HPUX 11.00

2004-06-16 Thread Tomasz Ciolek
Hi There On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:49:56PM -0500, Paula A. LeBlanc wrote: Rsync version 2.6.0 on a HP B.11.00 Rsync version 2.4.6 on Solaris 8 Make sure youre using same version of rsync on both ends. Mismatches like this one have been known to produce odd results. Regards Tomasz Ciolek

Re: real Newbie query sorry!

2004-06-16 Thread Tomasz Ciolek
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:33:29AM +0100, Stuart Halliday wrote: Hi as I'm a real newbie to rsync I'd better apoligise if this is 'old hat'. Its OK! the only silly question is that which is not asked. We all were newbies once or twice... [SNIP] The DOS shell command I'm using is this:

RE: how to exclude large files from backup list.

2004-06-16 Thread Wallace Matthews
It is the 55 function variety of Swiss Army Knife already and my boss is asking me to add yet another blade. :-) wally -Original Message- From: Chris Shoemaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 1:51 PM To: Wayne Davison Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to

[Bug 1463] New: poor performance with large block size

2004-06-16 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1463 Summary: poor performance with large block size Product: rsync Version: 2.6.2 Platform: x86 OS/Version: other Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3

Re: how to exclude large files from backup list.

2004-06-16 Thread Jiang Wensheng
Thank you Wayne, It works. Jiang Wensheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-06-16 On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:05:09AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: Adding an option to make rsync do this wouldn't be very hard I've whipped up a patch and checked-in the diff to the patches dir. If you either checkout

Signatures ...

2004-06-16 Thread King, Daniel
Hi, folks. I'm having some trouble getting to the source signature for rsync: http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.2.tar.gz.sig Several other mirrors seem to have the same problem, i.e., the file is unreadable. Is it just me? Thanks, A. Daniel King, System Analyst Fiserv, Inc. HP-UX,

Need information about --stats output.

2004-06-16 Thread Collins, Kevin
Hi All... I use rsync to backup most of my servers to an offsite co-located server. I've been using this setup for about a month or so now and have been generally pleased with the operation as a whole. But one thing bothers me: I use the following command to actually do the transfers: rsync

RE: Rsync security

2004-06-16 Thread Andrew Smith-MAGAZINES
My personal preference was to mount a share from the file server on the client and essentially do the sync all locally on the client but rsync doesn't seem to like doing this very much (apparently this is advised against), What doesn't rsync like? Do you mean something like a rsync between a

Re: trigger command on successful upload?

2004-06-16 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 03:15:00PM +1200, Jason Haar wrote: e.g. rsync -x -e ssh src_dir remote:dst_share ssh remote /usr/local/bin/cleanup You don't need the separate ssh connection if you use --rsync-path to point to a script that first runs rsync (using the supplied args) and then does

Re: [OT] CVS update

2004-06-16 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 03:51:14PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot rsync anyway, how do I update? cd rsync cvs up The server details are remembered inside the CVS dirs, so once you checkout, you don't need to remind cvs where the files came from (you

Re: Signatures ...

2004-06-16 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:42:45AM -0400, King, Daniel wrote: http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.2.tar.gz.sig I can do a wget of that URL without problem. I get a very weird error if I try to use Firefox 0.9, though, which appears to be caused by their web server returning bogus MIME

rsycnc copies all files

2004-06-16 Thread Gareth
Hi I am making an extraordinary claim: rysnc seems to copy all my files, not just ones that have changed or new files. rsync version 2.6.0 protocol version 27 Debian 3.0 Woody I have tested this with one simple file, my example is shown below. Does anyone have any suggestions to rectify this?

FW: Signatures ...

2004-06-16 Thread King, Daniel
Thanks, Wayne. I was using Firefox. Could you tell me what I am doing wrong with this signature? $ ll rsync-2.6.2.tar.gz.sig rsync-2.6.2.tar.gz -rw--- 1 dking users 515402 Jun 16 09:36 rsync-2.6.2.tar.gz -rw--- 1 dking users 65 Jun 16 14:49

Re: Need information about --stats output.

2004-06-16 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:16:30AM -0400, Collins, Kevin wrote: Number of files: 161530 Number of files transferred: 327 Total file size: 97936829135 bytes Total transferred file size: 945709165 bytes Literal data: 741315984 bytes Matched data: 204393181 bytes File list size: 3446549 Total

Re: rsycnc copies all files

2004-06-16 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:26:33PM +0100, Gareth wrote: I am making an extraordinary claim: rysnc seems to copy all my files, not just ones that have changed or new files. Use either -t (preferred) or -c (slower). See also -a. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options:

Re: --link-dest in man page

2004-06-16 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 02:14:32PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: The description of --link-dest in the rsync man page should probably clarify that DIR is, unless it is an absolute path, relative to the destination directory, not the CWD. This is in the --link-dest description in CVS: Like

Re: Signatures ...

2004-06-16 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:35:39PM -0400, King, Daniel wrote: Could you tell me what I am doing wrong with this signature? You need to fetch the key so gpg can check the signature (I signed the file, not Dave). The key is available through the public keyserver network. One way to get it is to

Re: rsycnc copies all files

2004-06-16 Thread Gareth
Wayne Davison wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:26:33PM +0100, Gareth wrote: I am making an extraordinary claim: rysnc seems to copy all my files, not just ones that have changed or new files. Use either -t (preferred) or -c (slower). See also -a. ..wayne.. Wayne... Thanks for the

Re: Rsync security

2004-06-16 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:34:46PM +0100, Andrew Smith-MAGAZINES wrote: My personal preference was to mount a share from the file server on the client and essentially do the sync all locally on the client but rsync doesn't seem to like doing this very much (apparently this is advised

Re: Rsync security

2004-06-16 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 12:30:04PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: Do any rsync developers care to confirm/deny? [...] I've used rsync over NFS with no problems. It has been said many times before that using network-mounted disks is suboptimal because rsync is optimizing the data transfer, not

Re: Need information about --stats output.

2004-06-16 Thread Chris Shoemaker
Wayne, That's great stuff. What do you think about a cut-n-paste of this example and explanation into the documentation somewhere? -Chris On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 02:02:17PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:16:30AM -0400, Collins, Kevin wrote: Number of files: 161530

Re: Rsync security

2004-06-16 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 02:37:25PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 12:30:04PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: Do any rsync developers care to confirm/deny? [...] I've used rsync over NFS with no problems. It has been said many times before that using network-mounted

Re: Suggested chnage to --partial usage.

2004-06-16 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:30:16PM +0800, Jason Potter wrote: Hi There, This post is brought about due to the following two: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg10702.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg10709.html I have a situation where I

Re: [Bug 1463] New: poor performance with large block size

2004-06-16 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 06:21:15AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1463 Summary: poor performance with large block size Product: rsync Version: 2.6.2 Platform: x86 OS/Version: other

Re: rsycnc copies all files

2004-06-16 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:16:19PM +0100, Gareth wrote: Wayne Davison wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:26:33PM +0100, Gareth wrote: I am making an extraordinary claim: rysnc seems to copy all my files, not just ones that have changed or new files. Use either -t (preferred)

Re: Rsync for program loading on embedded platforms

2004-06-16 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 18:01, Greger Cronquist wrote: Hi again, This issue solved itself rather annoyingly since we use flash memory in our newer devices (which had slipped my mind). So we must erase the memory first and then load. Last time I played with flash, you could erase a block at

[PATCH] make write_batch local

2004-06-16 Thread Chris Shoemaker
Wayne, It's taken a little while for me to get more familiar with the code, but I think I've reached a good breakpoint in improving batch-mode. Let me highlight some of the changes in the attached patch: * --write-batch and --read-batch arguments are no

CVS update: rsyncweb

2004-06-16 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Wed Jun 16 23:33:19 2004 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsyncweb In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv19119 Modified Files: index.html Log Message: - Switched over to an asc gpg signature. - Got rid of the bogus 2.6.1 download links. Revisions: index.html