On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 02:19 , John K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
> >>I apologize if you already resolved this..I am a bit confused as to why you >>need to connect via samba for rsync. I do something very similar and rsync >>handles >>it all if I have the correct rsync mount points defined in the .conf file > >Thanks for replying chris, > >I don't need samba for rsync per se. We use samba for other reasons. It >would be just convinient. However what is an rync mount point? I should go >read about this. Do you run an rsync deamon? Yes, I run rsync on the linux side and the windows side as a daemon [lets call this the remote side ie where the daemon is run). On the local side I launch rsync through a cron or windows scheduler/.bat file (we will call this the local side) So if I want to rsync files from the linux box to the windows box, I have the daemon running on the remote windows box, in the .conf file you define where the mount point is (not sure if that is the correct terminology): [prupref-1165] path = e:/prupref-1165/ comment = prupref-1165 mirror read only = false use chroot = false (this can be applied to the linux remote side as well if you are going from windows->linux) I can see how going the rsync->smb would be a bit easier, but I had some issues with it. > > >>From: McKeever Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "John K." [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: [Samba] samba & rsync >>Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:01:13 -0600 >> >> >> >>On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 22:32 , John K. [EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >> >> >If anyone has time to look at this problem I would appreciate it. >> > >> >I think I am looking for a way to increase the "timeout" in samba (in the >> >smb.conf file) >> >for reporting a "down" link or "can't read xyz file". >> > >> >However I am writing to you folks because this problem has come up while >> >using rsync >> > >> > >> > >> >my problem >> >========== >> > >> >We have a wan in which links from a central linux machine to a nodes >>which >> >are xp machines >> >from 1 to 5 minutes a night. not very common, but it happens. >> > >> >we are using samba to mount directories on the remote linux machines to >>the >> >local >> >linux server. (we use samba because we also have xp machines in our >>network >> >it is just easier to use this for now). >> > >> >We use rsync nightly to backup remote directories to the local linux >> >server. >> > >> >When one of the outages happes during a backup (rsync operation) either >> >- if I have not set the --timout value in rsync the operation just >> >continues. Rysnc seems >> > not to notice that samba is reporting errors and just copies over I >>assume >> >a bunch of 0000. >> > Of course the file is corrupted. >> >>I apologize if you already resolved this..I am a bit confused as to why you >>need >>to connect via samba for rsync. I do something very similar and rsync >>handles it >>all if I have the correct rsync mount points defined in the .conf file >> >> >> > >> >- if I have set the --timeout value in rsync, in the case of failure >>rsync >> >just drops out. Of course if >> > i set the --timeout value to something like 2 minutes rsync seems to >> >ignore the samba errors and continues. >> > >> >What I would like to do is set a timeout value in samba for reporting >>errors >> >from what seems >> >to be about 30 seconds to something like 6 minutes. Then I could set the >> >--timeout value in rsync to >> >something like 5 minutes. >> > >> >I can't find in man smb.conf anywhere were you can set something like "if >> >you can't connect in 30 seconds" then report an error. >> > >> >> >> >>------------------------------------------- >>Chris McKeever >>If you want to reply directly to me, please use >>cgmckeever--at--prupref---dot---com >>http://www.prupref.com >> >> >>---- Prudential Preferred Properties www.prupref.com >> > >_________________________________________________________________ >Share holiday photos without swamping your Inbox. Get MSN Extra Storage >now! http://join.msn.com/\?PAGE=features/es > >-- >To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > ---- Prudential Preferred Properties www.prupref.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
