non-existing parent directories

2006-10-19 Thread Darin Perusich
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.

track a stolen laptop via rsync

2006-10-19 Thread jerrytown
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

Re: track a stolen laptop via rsync

2006-10-19 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
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

Re: non-existing parent directories

2006-10-19 Thread Matt McCutchen
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

Logging only files transferred not directories

2006-10-19 Thread Christian Hack
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

Re: track a stolen laptop via rsync

2006-10-19 Thread Aaron Morris
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

Re: Logging only files transferred not directories

2006-10-19 Thread Wayne Davison
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

Re: Logging only files transferred not directories

2006-10-19 Thread Matt McCutchen
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:

RE: Logging only files transferred not directories

2006-10-19 Thread Christian Hack
-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