Using ssh is not an option because I am backing up OS X to a Linux drive. rsync on the linux side cannot handle the extra attributes and resource forks of OS X.
So, I need a way that involves one-sided rsync, thus the mounted- filesystem solution. On Apr 2, 10:26 am, Chris Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 8:00 AM -0700 2007/04/02, duklaa wrote: > > > > >I am having problems getting rsync to work on a folder on my sshfs > >mounted. I am getting "permission denied" errors. However, I can read/ > >write to the volume just fine from both the finder as well as the unix > >prompt. > > >The exact same rsync command works fine if I mount the same > >destination using nfs instead of sshfs: > > >/usr/bin/rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress --archive -- > >recursive --times --perms --links --delete -E --owner --group -D -- > >exclude-from=backup_excludes.txt --one-file-system / /Volumes/MyServer/ > >backup > > >I am running latest Tiger. > > >Any clues? > > No, but a suggestion. If you are doing an update, instead of > a full copy, rsync will be *much* faster if you let it connect via > ssh instead of pointing it at a network mount (AFP, NFS, sshfs, etc.). > > The 'magic' part of rsync is comparison of binary files, > which requires reading both files to generate rolling checksums; then > only the differences need to be copied over the network. With rsync > connecting to the remote server via ssh, both systems read the files > and calculate checksums locally, copying over the differences. > Running over a network share, the system running rsync needs to copy > the whole remote file over the network link so it can compare against > the checksums on the local file; then the differences are copied. > > So rather than copying only checksums + deltas over an > ssh/rsh link (see "--rsh" in rsync's manual page), if rsyncing > against a share you copy whole files + deltas, which is double the > total data size in the worst case. > > Chris > -- > Chris Pepper: <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/> > <http://www.extrapepperoni.com/> > The Rockefeller University: <http://www.rockefeller.edu/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "macfuse-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
