I've been trying to set up an OpenSolaris-based NAS server, with one of its functions being a backup server for my Mac-based network. I'm using rsync 3.0.3 pre2 on my Macs with some extended attribute patches, but have been running into some compatibility problems when rsyncing via SSH from a Mac to the Solaris server (I’m not running daemon mode on the server, but rsync 3.0.3 pre2 is installed and in the bash path). For example, running “sudo /usr/local/bin/rsync -a -z -e ssh "Backup Source" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:destination" --exclude-from=/Users/.rsync/exclude --delete-excluded --progress --dry-run” allows my Mac’s rsync to successfully push data to the Solaris server. However, when I add some extra flags to support the Mac’s file attributes, specifically -AX and --fileflags to preserve ACLs, xattrs, and Finder file flags respectively, I receive the following errors:
When calling --fileflags: $ sudo /usr/local/bin/rsync -azx -H -e ssh "/Users/Documents" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/Target_Directory/" --exclude-from=/Users/.rsync/exclude --delete-excluded --fileflags --protect-args --progress --dry-run rsync: on remote machine: --fileflags: unknown option rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1484) [server=3.0.3pre2] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(635) [sender=3.0.3pre2] When calling -A (ACL’s): $ sudo /usr/local/bin/rsync -azx -HA -e ssh "/Users/Documents" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/target_directory/" --exclude-from=/Users/.rsync/exclude --delete-excluded --protect-args --progress --dry-run sending incremental file list rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe (32) recv_acl_access: value out of range: 8000 rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at acls.c(670) [receiver=3.0.3pre2] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (9 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(635) [sender=3.0.3pre2] Rsync run with -X (extended attributes): $ sudo /usr/local/bin/rsync -azx -HX -e ssh "/Users/Documents" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/Target_Directory/" --exclude-from=/Users/.rsync/exclude --delete-excluded --protect-args --progress --dry-run rsync: extended attributes are not supported on this server rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1422) [server=3.0.3pre2] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(635) [sender=3.0.3pre2] It appears that even though I’m trying to perform a “push” operation with rsync (without using the remote demon), the SSH connection seems to still be calling rsync on the Solaris server and is running into some error. Is there a rsync flag to not call rsync through SSH on the target server? It’s also possible that the error is coming from a lack of support of either Solaris/ZFS ACL’s or xattrs in rsync itself (I compiled the fileflags patch in rsync on Solaris, so I’m not sure why this wouldn’t work other than maybe the patch’s code only supports Mac?), or a general lack of compatibility between the Mac’s extended attributes/ACLs and ZFS’s extended attributes/ACLs. However, I've played around a little with the Mac OS X ZFS implementation which seems to have no problem handling metadata, but I'm not sure if the support is exclusive to the Mac implementation or if it is present in ZFS in general. Any help on how to fix this issue or successfully back up a Mac to a ZFS host via rsync would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
