Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blacklist one of the pool's rsync server?

2018-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 02:18:37 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > Is it possible to add it to your hosts file and point it to local > > IP?  > > No. Because the name is rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage. > > Obviously, if it is a numbered IP then this like

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Emerge --sync fails on excluded stuff

2018-10-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
rtage/repos.conf/ Namely localrepo.conf > and layman.conf. Now what? Sorry, I'm not trolling. It's painful > when you RTFM, and TFM is out to lunch. I have this in gentoo.conf: [DEFAULT] main-repo = gentoo [gentoo] priority = 20 location = /var/portage sync-type = rsync sync-uri = rsync://my.local.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Emerge --sync fails on excluded stuff

2018-10-23 Thread Mick
nf: > > [DEFAULT] > main-repo = gentoo > > [gentoo] > priority = 20 > location = /var/portage > sync-type = rsync > sync-uri = rsync://my.local.mirror/portage > auto-sync = yes > sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest = no > > I can't recall where this file came

Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-13 Thread Mick
is root:root. Should the ownership be portage:portage? What > > is the default? > > As it happens, I switched a machine from rsync to git syncing last night, > so started with a new tree. Everything is root:root. That implies that > portage does not drop permissions for the sync, o

Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-14 Thread n952162
is root:root. Should the ownership be portage:portage? What is the default? As it happens, I switched a machine from rsync to git syncing last night, so started with a new tree. Everything is root:root. That implies that portage does not drop permissions for the sync, otherwise it wouldn't be able

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying root to SSD in one go...a good idea...or?

2020-04-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 13:08:08 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> If you are using rsync or cp -u you could start the copy then stop at it >> certain points to let the SSD cool, then start it again.  It will >> basically pick up where it left off. > Don't

[gentoo-user] [OT] rsync rules question

2020-10-14 Thread Walter Dnes
I'd like to keep my "hot backup" machine more up-to-date. The most important directory is my home directory. So far, I've been doing occasional tarballs of my home directory and pushing them over. I exclude some directories for "reasons". I'd like to switch to rsync a

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:28 PM n952162 wrote: > > On 2020-06-11 22:01, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Try: > > USE="python_targets_python3_6 -python_targets_python3_7 -rsync-verify" > > emerge -p1v =sys-apps/portage-2.3.99-r2 > > > > Sorry, try again. >

Re: [gentoo-user] WKD 'if SKIP_HEADER not in values'

2020-12-28 Thread tastytea
On 2020-12-28 11:28+ Michael wrote: > I noticed this error coming up today, on different rsync mirrors: > > ~ # eix-sync && emerge -uaNDv world > > * Running emerge --sync > >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/usr/portage'... > * Using ke

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync options after backup restore. Transfer speed again.

2023-10-29 Thread Wol
On 22/10/2023 09:50, Dale wrote: I've read about using rsync as a daemon.  It is supposed to be faster. For some reason, I just never got around to trying it.  It would likely be a good idea to work on that.  It would likely be really handy when moving large amounts of data.  I may try to read

Re: [gentoo-user] sync-type: rsync vs git

2022-04-27 Thread Wol
On 27/04/2022 16:18, Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:22 AM Grant Edwards wrote: Is there any advantage (either to me or the Gentoo community) to continue to use rsync and the rsync pool instead of switching the rest of my machines to git? I've been very impressed

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync not deleting removed directory and drive PW DIS 3.3v question

2022-09-02 Thread Dale
Sebastiaan L. Zoutendijk wrote: > Dear Dale, > > On Friday 2 September 2022, 3.35am -0500, Dale wrote: > >> time rsync -auv --progress --delete /home/dale/Desktop/Crypt/Video/* >> /mnt/10tb/Video/ > What is going on here is due to a subtle interplay of rsync’s syntax and

RE: [gentoo-user] all digest files missing for portage update after rsync with local server

2007-03-25 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
.x to portage-2.1.x, you need to run `emerge --metadata`. Zac Here it is what I did for the record. On my local rsync server I set PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS in /etc/make.conf as in /etc/make.globals but removed --filter=... Then, still on my local rsync server I did an emerge --sync so the digest

Re: [gentoo-user] remote rsync

2006-03-12 Thread Paul Stear
on the device I get 3 icons NFS SMB HTTP If I click on SMB the location changes to smb://device.homenet.com and I can copy any files I want - even links seem to work I'm sure there must be a simple answer to this Paul Paul Stear wrote: Hi all, I am trying to rsync to a remote server

Re: [gentoo-user] What utility do you use to sync user files?

2012-12-02 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 12:21:40PM -0500, Randy Westlund wrote: I've been using rsync to sync binary files, shell scripts, my workspace, and random user files under my home directory across multiple machines. I'm using one server as the master copy, which makes daily incremental backups of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple repos.conf layout please

2015-05-01 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
conversion to the new order? Can someone please post a bog-standard example... *WITHOUT* inheriting a gazillion eclasses and/or cascading multiple overlays? The SYNC statement in my make.conf is... SYNC=rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage My /etc/portage directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and Firefox clash over rust version.

2022-01-11 Thread Dale
y/www-client/seamonkey/seamonkey-2.53.10.2-r2.ebuild > > Cheers, > Arve > > I was going to add the overlay but I get this error: root@fireball / # layman -a poly-c  * Adding overlay...  * Running Rsync... # /usr/bin/rsync -rlptDvz --progress --delete --delete-after --timeou

[gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Schmarck
David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and rsync to keep it updated. How do you

[gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Schmarck
for the job, but IMO not the best tool available. Instead I'd suggest to use rsync. Reason: It's easier to restore just a single file. It's of course possible to restore single files from tar-balls as well, but it's more complicated. Especially, if you're using incrementals. I'm not saying that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: rsync is good, but has its own disadvantages, notably the lack of compression and the reliance on the destination filesystem to preserve permissions. Can you elaborate more on the latter, please? What exactly is rsync relying on and which

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: back up gentoo system

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 May 2008 09:57:02 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: rsync is good, but has its own disadvantages, notably the lack of compression and the reliance on the destination filesystem to preserve permissions. Can you elaborate more on the latter

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync stopped working

2007-09-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:32:18 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I had just moved, and was busy setting up my new condo, [snip] It was a major struggle. emerge --sync stopped working. I manually selected a different rsync server, and got the same error messages. I gave up and used webrsync. Did

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-04 Thread Roger Mason
librsync, so may be of interest to you. http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/ If you ignore the 'rdiff-backup-data' folder it creates then it's more or less identical to using rsync alone. Thanks, I'll have a look at it. Did you have to do anything special to make it work from cron? Cheers, Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-05 Thread Roger Mason
Shawn Haggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have passwordless ssh between mymachine and backup_machine and the rsync command in the crontab runs perfectly from the command line. Does someone know what else needs to be done to get this (seemingly simple!) task to work

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh [solved]

2007-11-05 Thread Roger Mason
W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Roger Mason wrote: I have passwordless ssh between mymachine and backup_machine and the rsync command in the crontab runs perfectly from the command line. Does someone know what else needs to be done to get this (seemingly simple!) task to work

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-26 Thread reader
still need to exclude everything under it?. Neil has handled this... I wanted to include the rsync syntax to collect only directories... full or empty: So to collect all the directories regardless of your excludes put this before any excludes: --include=/**/ The trailing slash confines

[gentoo-user] emerge-webrsync

2009-02-20 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello, After using emerge-webrsync I got Updating Portage cache: 100% *** Completed websync, please now perform a normal rsync if possible. Update is current as of the of MMDD: 20090219 I am not sure what the message means perform a normal rsync if possible. I used emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?

2009-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:39:01 +0100, Geralt wrote: If it's just for data, I'm making a daily backup on a flash disk using rsync and from time to time a backup on an external hdd drive using again rsync. If you tar it up, you can't store the differences only anymore, so you have to decide first

[gentoo-user] emerge --sync timeouts

2006-01-02 Thread Matthew Closson
Hello, When I have not sync'd in over a month or so and when I ran: emerge --sync It basically shows the motd of the remote rsync server and then times out. I have let it run for a bit and try multiple servers and it just keeps timing out after the motd regardless of which server it goes

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync timeouts

2006-01-02 Thread Bastiaan Visser
Maybe not a direct solution, but does a web-sync work ? On Tuesday 03 January 2006 00:09, Matthew Closson wrote: Hello, When I have not sync'd in over a month or so and when I ran: emerge --sync It basically shows the motd of the remote rsync server and then times out. I have let it run

Re: [gentoo-user] cruel unusual?

2006-01-18 Thread Nick Rout
some humor at our expense.? PS (please don't take it seriously, as it's _HUMOR) awe, 5 minutes later, it's 51%.but we have 'speedup'. speedup relates to the transfer of the files via rsync, not the metadata processing. Thats why it comes straight after the files have been transferred

Re: [gentoo-user] progress in emerge --sync

2006-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
, the --progress option for rsync. emerge --sync calls rsync with this option. It seems a bit pointless for emerge --sync, where the files are so small there isn't time to show progress information find /usr/portage/ -size +100k only finds four files. -- Neil Bothwick Smoking Can Damage Your Health

[gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
server will not let me have a user called root so I have set user paul with the 'can do anything' previlege. The mount and rsync commands are using user root What file systems are involved? You get a similar message writing to NSFS or fat since unix like permisions are not supported

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo install on Dell restore partition... live?

2008-07-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:42:20 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I assume you meant 'cp -ax' :P I did, it's tar that uses -l for this. rsync -ax / /root/hd/ Well, /root/hd is empty so there's nothing to win with rsync other than it being slower than cp. But it does the job too, anyway

Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronizing my music collection

2008-08-12 Thread Grant
but keep the CD folder out of it completely. How should I do this? - Grant The thing that jumps to me immediately is rsync with a --exclude=CD Man, rsync is easy to use. I imagined something else. Would rsnapshot be useful in this case? What are the advantages of using a daemon instead

Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronizing my music collection

2008-08-13 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [13.08.08 03:31]: Man, rsync is easy to use. I imagined something else. Try Bakula with a robotarm tape changer to keep the two things in sync... ;-) Would rsnapshot be useful in this case? Defacto rsnapshot is just an elaborate wrapper around rsync... What

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync command

2008-11-26 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag 27 November 2008 06:20:47 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: I have a directory logfiles and inside it it has lots of sub directories. Inside it there are lots of .gz, .txt and .sql files I want only .sql files to be rsynced to the destination host man rsync, lookup --include. HTH

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make a backup of my gentoo installation

2008-12-14 Thread damian
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:24:23 +0100, damian wrote: rsync -a --delete --relative --exclude '/home' / /mnt/wd-backups/ That will also backup virtual filesystems like /proc, /dev and/sys. Add the -x option to avoid

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make a backup of my gentoo installation

2008-12-14 Thread Thanasis
on 12/14/2008 11:11 PM damian wrote the following: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:24:23 +0100, damian wrote: rsync -a --delete --relative --exclude '/home' / /mnt/wd-backups/ That will also backup virtual

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
with # cp -a /source /dest There is one slight disadvantage to cp in that it changed the modified time of directories to the current time, which rsync does not. I'd use rsync -ax /source/ /dest/ -- Neil Bothwick If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
will get the exact same result with # cp -a /source /dest There is one slight disadvantage to cp in that it changed the modified time of directories to the current time, which rsync does not. I'd use rsync -ax /source/ /dest/ I made a note of that command and will give that a try. I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:34:28 -0600, Dale wrote: rsync -ax /source/ /dest/ I made a note of that command and will give that a try. I'll also read the man page to see how to get it to skip /dev /sys /proc etc etc. That's what the -x

[gentoo-user] Back up again

2005-05-28 Thread Pupeno
After a lot of testing and testing of different methods to make backups I reached a conclution of what I need, but I don't know if it's possible. I want to do an rsync of the server directories I want but locally, it should end up in a tared file (it doesn't need to be compressed). I need

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and local mirrors

2005-10-27 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, John Jolet wrote: Yes, I read that man page quite a bit. I have written a script that uses from the command line rsync --rsh=ssh -l username server::module/files successfully. However, changing the SYNC line in make.conf to rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED] give me a connection

Re: [gentoo-user] Using tar to backup my system

2005-11-03 Thread Richard Watson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 19:41 -0500, Dave Nebinger wrote: I guess really what I'm saying is no, it is not a good idea. There's plenty of other backup solutions out there that would work better than this scheme. If you have a server and space for the file, rsync would even be a better

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge human readable format.

2007-04-03 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS in /etc/make.conf, but rsync doesn't appear to have an option to change this output, only suppress it. You can also override PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS (the defaults are set in /etc/make.globals) in make.conf. What you cannot do is change the binary that it uses (/usr/bin/rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Migrating databases to a new box

2007-04-27 Thread Martin Hudec
Michael Sullivan wrote: /etc/inti.d/mysql stop rsync -av --delete /var/lib/mysql/ newbox01:/var/lib/mysql/ And this method will preserve all granted permissions with their passwords? That would be great! It would. I've been moving mysql the very same way on my bsd boxes. Just stopped

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving linux system to another partition

2007-06-08 Thread Mauro Faccenda
using rsync -a to doing this job. but if you have any doubt... the manual is your friend. ;) man tar man rsync man cp []'s .m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Space opera

2006-04-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
as possible) Is cp -a sufficient ? I always use rsync for this, it preserves directory timestamps, which cp does not, and can be stopped and restarted if necessary. rsync -ax(v) /mnt/oldpartition/ /mnt/newpartition/ The trailing slashes matter! -- Neil Bothwick Use Colgate toothpaste

[gentoo-user] I cannot emerge sync after I used gcc-4.1 glibc-2.4

2006-04-12 Thread DongBin.Lou
it cannot detect alsa module setting,so it use all. but my alsa is not use a module,it in the kernel. !!! Rsync has not successfully finished. It is recommended that you keep !!! trying or that you use the 'emerge-webrsync' option if you are unable !!! to use rsync due to firewall or other restrictions

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage tree hosed?

2006-05-08 Thread Sven Köhler
from there, but of course, I can't emerge anything . . . The timeout-things - that's a stupid rsync problem. Update rsync to the latest release. Perhaps it helps. There used to be some webrsync-mechanism by running: emerge-webrsync Greetings Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, June 29, 2005 5:08 am, Ow Mun Heng said: I do, however, intend to test rdiff-backup later. ;) Well.. there is more than one way to skin the cat eh. I still think you should take a look at rsync. rdiff-backup uses librsync, so it only transfers the minimum necessary. Unlike rsync

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread James
A. Khattri ajai at bway.net writes: Is there a script to update workstation systems, automatically, say 10 minutes after booting? How best to do this? I run this in my servers at 3am (they sync off a local rsync server, similar to your setup): http://www.panhorst.com/glcu/ This looks

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-02 Thread Harald Arnesen
locations of course) Ben Blount Wouldn't rsync -a be better for this, or would cp -R preserve ownership and permissions as well? cp -a would preserve all file attributes. rsync would probably be better. -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn

2006-06-19 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi guys, I'm just curious about something. I've noticed many people report problems with their repository syncing simply because someone was in the middle of committing to the repository. Couldn't this be resolved by replacing the syncing mechanism with *svn* as opposed to rsync? After all

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-14 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:47:24 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I am looking for a faster way to do a cp -a r thisdir thatdir locally on one machine with one harddisk inside. rsync can parallel some of the tasks, like creating paths while files are being copied, so I guess it wouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Mar 2010, at 17:08, David W Noon wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:02 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +, David W Noon wrote: You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!! Why is that surprising

Re: [gentoo-user] identical drives, different free space!

2010-05-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 20:22 -0700, Kaddeh wrote: Are you doing a full recursive copy of / from rootfs for sdd7 (aka cp -r /) if so, are the other partitions mounted as well? [snip] yes, but the rsync command -x or --one-file-system should stop rsync traversing to different mounts so (I hope

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tree from git

2010-06-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 27 June 2010 12:15:50 Enrico Weigelt wrote: is there yet a way to get the portage tree directly via git ? IMHO this should be more traffic efficient than rsync in the long run (especially when syncing often). I sometimes wonder whether I should file a feature request on rsync

[gentoo-user] Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time?

2010-08-02 Thread Sebastián Ramírez Magr í
Hi folks... I've been thinking about switching from a rsync based tree to a git based one cloning [0]. The main reasons because I would do that is in order to save bandwidth (I've a slow GSM connection in my netbook and I sync two other gentoo boxes from the first one) and maybe time. So here

[gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-19 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:59 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, James did opine thusly: Hello, I have a ~250 gig sata disk I want to migrate to a 2T Sata disk. This is simple, but, I have a few caveats. [...] Now just rsync everything

Re: [gentoo-user] symlinks + rsync backup

2010-11-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:54:36 +0100, Pau Peris wrote: Hi, i'm doing a backup of a windows installation using rsync. Everything is working fine except for symlinks, the problem is that symlinks are taking absolute path so they're going to be broken as soon a paths get changed. app-misc

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync include exclude of regex conundrum

2011-03-27 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to rsync all the directories and files that contain the date 2011.03.03. Everything else should not be copied. I did a lot of experiments

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating a Standalone

2011-08-12 Thread James Broadhead
actual approach would be to set up the laptop as an rsync mirror, then: laptop $ emerge --sync (connect laptop to null-internet box via crossover cable + sync from laptop) nointernet $ emerge --sync nointernet $ emerge -pvfuDN world getfile (copy getfile to laptop, move laptop to delicious bandwidth

Re: [gentoo-user] experience with rsnapshot

2011-11-23 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
, so I was wondering if anyone is using it and how it works for you? I use good ole' rsync, together with a couple of scripts. It does the hard link-style incrementals and I can do a near-bare-metal restore. From that. rsync is still maintained afaik.

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup of remote virtual server

2012-01-12 Thread Michael Hampicke
/ /mnt/root rsync -avx /mnt/root user@remote.server:/backup/ True, this takes care of the /dev folder problem, but there's a downside: if you have for example /var on a different partition, it won't get backup up. This goes for mount --bind and also for rsync -x

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

2012-02-17 Thread Manuel McLure
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:03 PM, m...@trausch.us m...@trausch.us wrote: rsync works just fine with any normal set of options when using any sort of FAT as a destination.  There are, of course, a couple of gotchas:  - FAT has limitations on file sizes.  - FAT cannot store permissions or ACLs

[gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
? The hardware? If you have a new PC, you simply need to transfer your Gentoo install to a new hard disk using rsync. He borked his /usr/include due to an improperly-written uninstall rule in a Makefile. Oh. That's pretty easy to fix though. Install a new Gentoo in a chroot, and then rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a user with a shell account and SSH access

2013-07-02 Thread Grant
My backup user needs a shell on the backup server in order to execute rsync and needs to be included in /etc/ssh/sshd_config AllowUsers in order to SSH in. My authorized_keys file is locked-down. The second field for the user in /etc/shadow is an exclamation point which I think means

Re: [gentoo-user] creating an image of the system

2013-09-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
. Sorry if I am maybe a bit OT (am I?): I often cloned systems from or into VMs by booting both systems with live-CDs, mounting their disks and rsync -av the root-fs over ... sure, taking care of dev/sys/proc/tmp does not hurt ... After the rsync maybe some fstab-editing, checking grub-config

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-09-30 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 07:36:35PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: What is the best way to transfer multi-GB-files in LAN? I don't really need encryption here ... Did not mention rsync has: -n, --dry-run perform a trial run with no changes made as well as many other options

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-09-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.09.2013 19:46, schrieb Bruce Hill: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 07:36:35PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: What is the best way to transfer multi-GB-files in LAN? I don't really need encryption here ... Did not mention rsync has: -n, --dry-run perform a trial run

[gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 01/10/13, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I used split and tar to split the image-file into 100 MB parts and rsync them over right now. Maybe I have something wrong in my kernel ... the server shows a load of around 3 ... while only the rsync is running and my mosh-session

[gentoo-user] emerge --sync issue on only one comp on LAN

2013-10-01 Thread Bruce Hill
There are 3 (or more) computers which sync (sometimes daily) on my LAN at work: server, router, and workstation. server has issues almost all the time getting a rsync server (for lack of better way to state it). All three comps have the exact same SYNC in make.conf: mingdao@server ~ $ grep SYNC

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync issue on only one comp on LAN

2013-10-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 01/10/2013 16:20, Bruce Hill wrote: There are 3 (or more) computers which sync (sometimes daily) on my LAN at work: server, router, and workstation. server has issues almost all the time getting a rsync server (for lack of better way to state it). All three comps have the exact same SYNC

Re: [gentoo-user] using lvm without a partition of type linux LVM

2013-10-13 Thread Mick
On Sunday 13 Oct 2013 00:07:56 Thanasis wrote: on 10/12/2013 05:40 PM gottl...@nyu.edu wrote the following: copy the lvm partitions to directories on an external disk (ext3) What command did you use for copying? You can use rsync, scp or (s)tar. Personally I prefer star with the copy

Re: [gentoo-user] using lvm without a partition of type linux LVM

2013-10-15 Thread gottlieb
for copying? cp -ax rsync not is on the minimal install. rsync is on my 2013 amd-x64 minimal install CD. Do you have an amd-x64 install and do you have the latest version of the minimal install CD? I do have amd64, but not 2013. allan

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

2014-01-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.01.2014 17:16, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 06.01.2014 16:40, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:31:55 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: How to migrate? dd isn't recommended, right? rsync the partitions one by one? But one of them is encrypted ... Set up a new

Re: [gentoo-user] Are the UK rsync mirrors down?

2014-03-08 Thread Mick
On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 11:13:29 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 10:42:08 Mick wrote: I just tried my weekly rsync and it failed to find the server: ... Have you come across the same problem recently? Yes, I get the same. It worked all right at 04:20 but not now. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Are the UK rsync mirrors down?

2014-03-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 11:33:15 Mick wrote: On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 11:13:29 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 08 Mar 2014 10:42:08 Mick wrote: I just tried my weekly rsync and it failed to find the server: ... Have you come across the same problem recently? Yes, I get the same

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab - and' condition

2014-09-19 Thread Stephan Müller
Am 18.09.2014 um 18:44 schrieb Joseph: I want to run a cron job only once a month. The problem is the computer is only on on weekdays Mon-Fri. 1-5 cron tab as this below is an or condition as it has entries in Days of the Months and Day of the Week 5 18 1 * 2 rsync -av ... so

Re: [gentoo-user] cron - once a month during week days

2015-02-05 Thread Florian Gamböck
Hi Joseph! Am 05.02.2015 um 20:19 schrieb Joseph: I have a cron tab entry: 8 12 1-7 * 1 rsync ... From `man 5 crontab`: Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by two fields — day of month, and day of week. If both fields are restricted (ie, aren't *), the command

[gentoo-user] Re: Simple repos.conf layout please

2015-05-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/05/15 08:49, Philip Webb wrote: 150501 Alec Ten Harmsel recommended: [gentoo] location = /usr/portage sync-type = rsync sync-uri = rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage auto-sync = true I don't have the final line : what is it for ? It means that your local copy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: All sorts of digest verification failures

2015-11-15 Thread covici
Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote: > Simon Thelen <gentoo-u...@c-14.de> wrote: > > I sync from git and none of my Manifests track the ebuilds, so this > > could be a thing. > > No. git has (probably, I didn't check) > thin-manifests = true > in

Re: [gentoo-user] portage can not find local ebuild

2015-09-17 Thread Andrew Savchenko
> My settings: > > make.conf. > ... > PORTDRI_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" 1. PORTDIR_OVERLAY 2. It is no longer used, overlays should be declared at repos.conf these days. > cat /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf > [DEFAULT] > main-repo = gentoo > > [gentoo] > loca

Re: [gentoo-user] portage 2.2.21: rsync_excludes no longer taken into account

2015-09-22 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Holger Hoffstätte <holger.hoffstae...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > After today's update to ~portage-2.2.21 rsync gives more more than I > asked for on repo update; it seems rsync_excludes is no longer read > or observed.

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] resizing EFI partition, btrfs context

2015-10-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 06.10.2015 15:00, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > stupid me. this does NOT copy the subvols over as I assumed. > > I tried to rsync the root-subvol ... but there are no subvols created by > rsync. Ok, done so far. I took the btrfs-replace road with the risk ... I had to use "

[gentoo-user] Re: eix showing me weird results

2016-01-27 Thread Martin Vaeth
»Q« <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote: > eix-sync Which method do you use for syncing (rsync, git, ...)? > I've run 'emerge --metadata' and 'eix-update' The requirement to run emerge --metadata seems to suggest that you use git? If this is true, better use egencache to generate

Re: [gentoo-user] Digest verification failed:

2016-04-07 Thread Sam Jorna
far as I am aware, was either caused by bad timing between commits and rsync metadata generation or some other factor in generating the metadata being pushed out to rsync servers; though from what I've seen it seems to only affect some mirrors. 0: https://bugs.gentoo.org/579204 -- Sam Jorna

[gentoo-user] From rsync to git: sync-uri is invalid: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git

2017-01-28 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi, To switch from rsync to git I am following the steps described here https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/3i141w/now_that_portage_is_using_git_how_do_i_git_pull/ The last step I did was "mv /usr/portage /usr/portage.old ; emerge sync" and I got: solfire:/usr>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync

2016-10-24 Thread Rich Freeman
Cs take the binary > packages from this HTTP location and do their normal stuff afterward. > The host box is also a local rsync mirror. > Why not just share everything via bind mounts in this case? I'd think that would have less overhead than rsync/http and then you're not storing files twice. -- Rich

[gentoo-user] installsources not working for some packages

2017-10-18 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
strip and ecompressdir: installsources: rsyncing source files rsync: link_stat "/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/bluez-5.47-r1/work/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.23-r4/work/glibc-2.23/csu" failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previ

[gentoo-user] Re: How to update public keys?

2018-07-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-07-05, Grant Edwards wrote: > As of today, I seem to be unable to a an "emerge --sync". > > The process either hangs forever at the "Refreshing keys from keyserver step: [...] > Or, it fails because there are no public key to verify a manfest: For now, I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying root to SSD in one go...a good idea...or?

2020-04-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 13:08:08 -0500, Dale wrote: > If you are using rsync or cp -u you could start the copy then stop at it > certain points to let the SSD cool, then start it again.  It will > basically pick up where it left off. Don't use cp -u, if you interrupt it while a file is bei

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate gentoo system - errors

2020-11-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 14:31:26 -0600, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > > And correct me if I'm wrong but with rsync if something dies in > > process you can usually start it back up and complete the job without > > starting over from scratch. > > If you use the --partial f

Re: [gentoo-user] is "scp" reliable?

2021-05-29 Thread cal
; And yes, I plug the USB device back to original machine and md5sum is > correct, same as the original. > > I copied the large file over network to another box and md5sum of: > windows-7_pro_May-23-21.ova is correct same as on the original box. > > I run this: "rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install a new system

2021-04-11 Thread Rich Freeman
ge --sync (whether on the same stage3 or with a new one). The stable repo is less likely to have this problem, but I don't think it is available via rsync. (At least, the last time I looked into it we weren't using the stable repo for rsync.) -- Rich

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync keeps failing

2021-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
ually fixes it. Have you tried a different rsync mirror? > You can use 'mirrorselect -i -r' for this task. I used to see this from time to time, but then I switched to using git instead of rsync and haven't seen it again. There's the added bonus that syncing is MUCH faster too. -- Neil Bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Migrate from rsync to git for emerge --sync?

2021-10-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
t;. It did, but if all you had changed in repos.conf was the sync method, it would have come back after the next sync. I switched from rsync to git some time ago and it just worked. You made the classic mistake of changing two things at once and then not knowing which change caused the blow up

[gentoo-user] Migrate from rsync to git for emerge --sync?

2021-10-12 Thread Grant Edwards
How do you migrate from rsync to git for 'emerge --sync'? I changed my /etc/porttage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf file as shown in various places, but when I try to do a sync, git barfs: # emerge --sync >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/usr/portage'... /usr/bin/git clone --dept

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