Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread meino . cramer
ith one caveat: > > You must always make sure the source drive is intact and ok. If not, and > you back it up anyway, then you are already toast (you will overwrite > your last backup with new faulty data). > > There's several approaches to how to do the transfer: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-08-03 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 07:10:03AM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > >> Keep in  mind that both repos have the same ID - you should also rsync > >> the cache and security directories as well as they are now out of sync > >> (hence the warning). > > That thought c

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive error from SMART

2022-04-12 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 1:08 PM Dale wrote: >> I remounted the drives and did a backup. For anyone running up on this, >> just in case one of the files got corrupted, I used a little trick to >> see if I can figure out which one may be bad if

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

2023-10-21 Thread Dale
e ago.  I tried again >> with my usual command, it wants to update everything again.  I seem to >> recall that rsync goes by file size and modify time stamps.  Is there a >> way to make the NAS box files newer or something so that it will not try >> to copy the same f

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system

2010-02-25 Thread daid kahl
he client can then do it's backup and rsync it over to the server >> when it's done, and that push can be done as a regular user on both ends. The >> actual backing up on the client must be done by root of course, no other user >> has the necessary access. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I move system to new disk?

2010-01-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
copy" will not contain any "sub-mounts" (as if you > > accessed it from a livecd), > > Or you could simply use the -x option with rsync. But copying an in use > filesystem is a bad idea, better to boot from a live CD and do the job > there. If you want to minimise do

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
> I guess I have to run emerge sync and emerge -uD world on each client > still, > but they use the http replicator instead of gentoo servers for both > updating the portage/rsync files and downloading the distfiles (via the > http > replicator)? In the case of distfiles

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync internal mirror configuration

2005-07-13 Thread James
A. Khattri bway.net> writes: > > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, James wrote: > > > Ahhh that's it: > > # cat /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp > > Tue Jul 12 13:06:52 UTC 2005 > > # date > > Wed Jul 13 12:05:26 UTC 2005 > > On my machines, the mast

Re: [gentoo-user] problem filtering portage messages...

2009-08-22 Thread Robin Atwood
for each client). > > The problem is with portage logs: I can not find any pattern > I could use to filter them out. For example, this is small part > of /var/log/emerge.log: > > 1250923552: *** emerge sync > 1250923552: === sync > 1250923552: >>> Starting r

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

2008-12-26 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Friday 26 December 2008 21:49:02 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >>> OK, I once again verified that fragmentation seems to be a big issue >>> even on Linux. I just migrated to ext4, and in order to do that I had &g

Re: [gentoo-user] proper proxy syntax to synchronize time via rdate

2007-09-02 Thread Roman Zilka
Hi Liviu, it seems you're only allowed to access web, FTP and rsync services on the Internet through your proxy. Both rsync and NTP use their own ports and protocols, different from HTTP/FTP/rsync. Firstly, you need a proxy server (or some other form of tunnel) that will allow for rdat

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

2007-04-03 Thread galevsky
e --sync makes a call to rsync program ? I did not take the time > yet to learn more about Gentoo specific softwares, but I will do that > soon. Look at the sizes format in bytes. Today it often happens -well, > most of the time- several Mo of download, so the byte unit is not very >

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
to a drive in good condition (all other things being equal). I have a setup with 3 machines, 1 with very OLD HDs. I'm behind a firewall, so I can't use rsync protocol over the web, I download a portage snapshot daily and use local rsync, the 2 other machines use the one synced locally

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

2012-12-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 9:21 AM, 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 inc

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Ow Mun Heng
> and on the first computer > cat /dev/hda1 | pv | gzip | nc othermachine Wow.. That's a cool way to do things. The other way to do it, without having the need to use nc (netcat) would be to use ssh instead. I do it either 1. tar -cf / . | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "tar -xvf -

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get minimal portage-logs

2006-05-11 Thread Mick
fo, warn or error. There's also enotice - although I think its deprecated? A crude way of only checking the warning log files is by making a judgment call on their size: = -rw-r--r-- 1 rootportage 18944 May 6 12:12 3799-rsync-2.6.8.log -rw-r--r-- 1 rootp

Re: [gentoo-user] syncing via via git and signature failure

2018-07-04 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 05/07/18 02:32, gevisz wrote: > 2018-07-04 21:01 GMT+03:00 Mick : >> On Wednesday, 4 July 2018 18:57:56 BST gevisz wrote: >>> 2018-07-04 11:55 GMT+03:00 Alex Thorne : >>>>> I use rsync and get the following for more than a day now; >>>>> >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing digest for *** Tree looks messed up.

2015-08-09 Thread Jc García
2015-08-09 19:05 GMT-06:00 Rich Freeman : > TL;DR - don't worry about it too much, but don't be surprised if > emerge --sync doesn't give you anything new for a day or two . The rsync git mirror on github is up arlready I have been using this, for some months, and has been

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
th new faulty data). There's several approaches to how to do the transfer: If you have say a general fileserver with lots of files that don't change much or often, just rsync everything in one go. There is no optimization you can do that will perform much faster than rsync. If you have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using extract_url with mutt?

2021-04-27 Thread Walter Dnes
] main-repo = gentoo [gentoo] location = /usr/portage sync-type = rsync sync-uri = rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage auto-sync = yes sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest = no # for daily squashfs snapshots #sync-type = squashdelta #sync-uri = mirror://gentoo/../snapshots/squashfs = c

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

2021-10-12 Thread Rich Freeman
nce the symlink will be broken. > > Indeed. And the failure that produces is not at all graceful. > > I spent a little time trying to figure out where in the Wiki or docs > that the rsync -> git migration steps should be documented, but I > didn't find anyplace that looked like t

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-19 Thread Dale
Wols Lists wrote: > On 18/12/2022 22:11, Dale wrote: >> Wol wrote: >>> On 18/12/2022 18:59, Dale wrote: >>>> Since this is local, I just use rsync to do my backups.  I did have to >>>> change the options a bit.  It seems TrueNAS doesn't like some of

Re: SOLVED Re: [gentoo-user] ATLAS@home and VirtualBox

2016-05-03 Thread Andrew Savchenko
or no > maintainers in case of herds requested to be disbanded. > > 24 Jan 2016; Michał Górny metadata.xml: > Set appropriate maintainer types in metadata.xml (GLEP 67) > > What is the approved method of reading change-logs nowadays? If you are using git sync, just go

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rsync rules question

2020-10-14 Thread antlists
ot;reasons". I'd like to switch to rsync and run it more often. I've done the RTFM, but I'd more eyes to check this out before the first run. I haven't yet set up my system, but a couple of tweaks I'm planning to add ... Either use btrfs, or an lvm partition,

Re: [gentoo-user] permission denied (13)

2008-03-26 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 schrieb ext Kaushal Shriyan: > > I am running the command > > > > /usr/bin/rsync -avO /var/lib/mysql [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/ > > > /tmp/rsync-${TIMESTAMP

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

2007-03-25 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
231 > The bug has been fixed. > The cache format changed between portage-2.0.x and portage-2.1.x, so > emerge --metadata needs to be run in order to migrate to the new format. > Now that my rsync local server has been upgraded to portage 2.1.2.2, should I still keep PORTAGE_RS

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

2007-06-08 Thread Mauro Faccenda
unix-like (not vfat or ntfs) i'd prefer 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] Re: Updating a Standalone

2011-08-12 Thread James Broadhead
tion. My 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

Re: [gentoo-user] local portage server

2005-10-31 Thread John Jolet
hould have been loaded in with an emerge --sync? or an rsync of the > > whole tree from one of the mirrors? > > emerge --sync Thanks for the help. Turned out I had set up the module definition wrong in my rsyncd.conf. I've now got both emerge --sync working using this as the sy

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

2005-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 19:41:19 -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

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

2006-04-12 Thread DongBin.Lou
his) symbol"and 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

[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&#x

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

2013-09-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
rder to boot proplery. 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

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

2013-10-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 01.10.2013 14:32, schrieb 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

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

2015-11-15 Thread covici
Martin Vaeth wrote: > Simon Thelen 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 its metadata/layout.conf, but for rsync this shoul

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

2013-12-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 18:06:40 -0800, Grant wrote: > I may end up using portage instead of rsync but I think I'd like to > try rsync first. Am I setting myself up for failure? Tried and tested system maintenance tool vs. home brewed modification of critical files... I'd say a defi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switched from rsync to git, now emerge --sync fails

2021-10-14 Thread Wol
On 14/10/2021 09:28, Miles Malone wrote: So the default being for git to act like git, instead of git to act like an alternative to rsync, makes perfect sense in that context. And once it's sync'd the first time, I think sync depth is ignored. It normally doesn't make much di

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-01-30 Thread Wol
On 30/01/2024 19:19, Rich Freeman wrote: I'd echo the other advice. It really depends on your goals. If you just want a simple backup, I'd use something like rsync onto lvm or btrfs or something. I've got a little script that sticks today's date onto the snapshot na

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-01-30 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 3:08 PM Wol wrote: > > On 30/01/2024 19:19, Rich Freeman wrote: > > I'd echo the other advice. It really depends on your goals. > > If you just want a simple backup, I'd use something like rsync onto lvm > or btrfs or something. I

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

2016-10-24 Thread Alarig Le Lay
uff between boxes with rsync via ssh. Simple > enough and it seems to be working fine. I use a similar setup for LXC containers running over a gentoo box, except that my box is setted up to publish the binary packets on a specified directory that is accessible via HTTP. My LXCs take the binary pac

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

2013-12-12 Thread wraeth
;>> the master are: /etc/conf.d/hostname, /etc/conf.d/net, >>> /etc/ssh/sshd_config, /etc/shorewall/*. I write comments in those >>> files which serve as flags for scripted changes. >>> >>> I write a script that is run from the master to the submaster, o

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible heads up: Digest verification failed

2016-10-30 Thread Daniel Campbell
t; It looks like repoman is the culprit >> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598376 >> > > This is probably not the issue here, since Gentoo uses thin manifests > (there is nothing for repoman to update). The manifests that are > causing the problem aren'

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving the system from one disk to another

2010-04-04 Thread Kerin Millar
-a . ../ Seems to me slow but correct? Or? cp -a is fine although, in my experience, I've found that rsync is more reliable: rsync -av /mnt/oldrootfs/. /mnt/newrootfs/. Note that -a covers almost everything but you may need the following additional options depending on how your files

[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

Re: [gentoo-user] Syncing data between servers

2005-07-02 Thread James Hiscock
ou don't even get a root password even if you by it. > I can export directories with nfs witch i have done and so a Gentoo server > in the middle can sync the data between the two machines. Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you use rsync or ssh from the gentoo server i

Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-11 Thread forgottenwizard
On 23:29 Tue 11 Mar , Logan McKenna wrote: > I just use mkstage4.sh which can be found on the forums. Works great for me > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:10 PM, forgottenwizard < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm messing around with doing backups via rsy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
er dmcrypt, > loopback-mounted from a file, followed by an rsync over ssh to a remote > host), and I'd be happy to find something better! I'm currently using it with a local server. If I decide to use the backups on a remote server too, I'll probably stick to backing up to the

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

2008-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
alled "tar" is the tool to use. > > But if a backup to disk is done, tar is still a good tool 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross-compiling

2007-10-26 Thread Dan Farrell
our friend... :-) > Another option is to nfs-mount the client's hard drive on the fast box, bind a portage tree into the filesystem, chroot & proceed to emerge. Or you could build the whole filesystem on the server, and push changes out to the client with rsync or some such thing. I

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync via ssh

2007-11-05 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 07:34 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: > 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 comma

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

2008-07-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
/ *EXCEPT* /dev, /proc, /sys and /lost+found) mkdir /root/hd/dev mkdir /root/hd/proc mkdir /root/hd/sys Or replace all this with one command cp -al / /root/hd I assume you meant 'cp -ax' :P That's indeed faster than typing everything by hand and I forgot about it ;P or,

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

2008-07-15 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:52:20 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 / /roo

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Leonardo Guilherme
ently I would have to produce an md5sum of all files in > > /etc /usr /var and / and compare these. But there are dozens of > > thousands of files in these directories. > > You could use rsync with –dry-run to tell you what's different > (without actually transferring any file

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge/python failure

2010-10-15 Thread Fatih Tümen
%s%s%s/" % (user_name, ip, port), 1)) > > Probably needs to be reported. > > > > Coding against PEP8 is not a bug. I guess devs find string concatenation more handy and maintainable. The bug was about the addrinfos data gotten from the server. I thought the response of

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

2010-11-19 Thread Nuno J. Silva
igrate to a 2T >>> Sata disk. This is simple, but, I have a few caveats. > [...] >> Now just rsync everything in /mnt/sda* to the right place in /mnt/sdb > > Some weeks ago, I did this kind of migration. I ended up using good ol' > tar - after lots of research, it was

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
OW. > > So you should install/use cdb, which makes the whole rsync/update process > > REAL FAST. > > > >>If you sync regularly it's usually within 5 min. > > > > it is, with cdb. > > Thanks for the hint. > If I got it right here's the link fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing portage in my LAN without rsync?

2005-09-15 Thread Matthew Cline
On 9/15/05, aka Sevein Jes__s Garc__a Crespo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! Was Portage developed to work with a /usr/portage directory mounted > from another computer with NFS or SMB? I did it and it worked. > > I thought this way could be easier than rsync when you have ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Gentoo mirror

2005-10-05 Thread Nick Rout
Why would you want ALL of distfiles? A lot is old & redundant. Also why would you rsync it? Thats a lot of cpu grinding. I suggest setting up one of these: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Download_Cache_for_LAN-Http-Replicator If someone really wants every source file ever made, this will

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimal time to 'emerge world'?

2005-10-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
rity patches - can we | *safely* assume that if the GLSA is out, that the updated versions are | available? Under normal circumstances, CVS to rsync runs every half hour, with up to an hour and a half(?)'s lag depending upon which rsync mirror you use. As for commits, most of us are European or

Re: [gentoo-user] ghosting(?) a drive

2005-11-12 Thread Jimmy Rosen
I would recommend creating a new file system on the destination drive. The do a rsync -axH src dst Then install grub on the master boot sector on the destination drive as specified in the gentoo installation manual. I have had problems with dd ghosting in the past but rsync has worked flawlessly so far. Jimmy -- 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

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

2013-07-01 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 exclamatio

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

2013-10-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.09.2013 22:03, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > I will simply let the scp take its time over night ... and I hope the > KVM-performance will be OK when I start the converted VM. I used split and tar to split the image-file into 100 MB parts and rsync them over right now. Maybe

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

2013-10-01 Thread Greg Turner
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:20 AM, 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 &

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

2015-11-15 Thread Martin Vaeth
Alan Mackenzie wrote: >!!! /usr/portage/sys-apps/busybox/busybox-.ebuild >!!! Got: 8493 >!!! Expected: 8580 Do you use the default (rsync) for syncing, or have you changed the method? I have the above claimed filesize (8493), but the Manifest I obtained from rsync i

Re: [gentoo-user] cron tab

2017-03-21 Thread thelma
flag needs to be OFF. I have: sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r14 (pam -debug -selinux) I created a cron job as root: 6 18 3 * 1-5 rsync -av /usr/src/linux/.config /home/thelma/backup/etc/etc_atom/kenel-config and checking the /var/log/messages it run at 18:06 today (Mar.21) ? but it should run every

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

2017-04-26 Thread R0b0t1
to mount a location that can be accessed >>> via ssh to your local file system, as if you are using ssh. >>> >> >> In a similar vein, scp. > > And considering something still robust but a little more smart, rsync. > I was actually going to come back and suggest rscync over ssh. I didn't originally mention it because I typically associate rsync with backups.

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 >

Re: [gentoo-user] webrsync

2020-02-23 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On dim. 23 févr. 11:11:31 2020, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > emerge-webrsync has just eaten my /usr/portage :-( ;-( > > I let it run unattended. When I came back I saw first some complaints > from rsync about "vanished" files ... something like > > /usr/portage/_build has

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 i

Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update

2021-05-06 Thread n952162
which involve complicated or expensive fixes: In a worst-case, you could try skipping manifest verification altogether on the affected machine. You must do 2 steps to get that working. 1) In /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf set... sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest = no The default installed sett

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

2021-08-02 Thread Michael
is problem over here, but on rare occasions. Leaving it for > > half a day usually 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 > ins

[gentoo-user] Switched from rsync to git, now emerge --sync fails

2021-10-13 Thread Grant Edwards
Yesterday I switched my gentoo repo from rsync to git, and the initial --sync with an empty directory did a git clone successfully. Today, when I try to sync, it always fails: $ sudo emerge --sync >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/var/db/repos/gentoo'..

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] how to delete a directory tree really fast

2021-10-22 Thread Rich Freeman
t commands are concerned. I don't think you can create reflinks between subvolumes either. The files are already reflinked by design though. You'd just make a new snapshot and then rsync over it. Anything that doesn't change will already share space on disk by virtue of the snapsho

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't upgrade portage or update/install ebuilds

2023-06-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2023-06-09, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > If it is only about gemato then temporary disable the rsync-verify flag > which pulls it in. > > # USE="-rsync-verify" emerge sys-apps/portage The problem I ran into is that you never know how many issues there are standing in the

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

2007-03-24 Thread de Almeida, Valmor F.
Hello list. My local rsync server has been upgraded to the 2006.1 profile (gcc-4.2.2). All my other boxes that sync against the local server have problems with missing digest files. I follow the instructions in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Local_Rsync_Mirror and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Dale
Alan E. Davis wrote: > >I'm not certain what an rsync server is, but I am guessing it >would be a cache of files that could be picked up by other machines. > > When you do a emerge sync, it connects to a rsync server. When I do that on one of my secondary rigs, it gets t

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage, git and shallow cloning

2018-07-06 Thread Davyd McColl
rhaps I'm sorely mistaken) appeared to be faster using git than rsync -- hence my choice of git over rsync (the discussion at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1009562.html shows me to not be alone in this experience). Having the changelogs available also comes off as a positive for me --

Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage, git and shallow cloning

2018-07-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 4:34 AM Davyd McColl wrote: > > I understand that git history will build over time -- I'm less concerned > with (eventual) disk usage than I am with the speed of `emerge --sync`, > which (and perhaps I'm sorely mistaken) appeared to be faster using git

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-02-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
ots, for YEARS? > > > > My comment was based on using rsync to copy from the source to the backup > > filesystem. > > Well, that's EXACTLY what I'm doing too. NO DIFFERENCE. Actually, there > is a minor difference - because I'm using lvm, I'm al

[gentoo-user] mirrorselect build failed

2024-05-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
: /var/db/repos/gentoo sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 volatile: False sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 3 sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes sync-rsync-extra-opts: sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1 Binary Repositories

Re: [gentoo-user] docutils needing py2.7, but not wanting py2.7?

2020-06-04 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
o sys-devel/make: 4.3::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 5.7::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.31-r3::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /var/db/repos/gentoo sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 sync-r

[gentoo-user] gnokii emerge failed

2020-09-05 Thread n952162
location: /var/db/repos/gentoo sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1 sync-rsync-extra-opts: sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re[4]: Re: Portage, git and shallow cloning

2018-07-07 Thread Rich Freeman
n a secure manner. > Sure, but this also doesn't support signature verification at all (at least not by portage - git can of course manually verify any commit), so your points still don't apply. > > and as a bonus they want them prepended to > > instead of appended so that r

Re: [gentoo-user] backup to a cold-swap drive

2010-04-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
d replace fstab and grub.conf on the backup > medium and blacklist them from the files which you want to back up. why wouldn't I backup fstab and grub.conf as well? If my internal disk dies, I assume I'll swap them over, meaning grub and fstab will have to be the same. > Concer

Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

2007-12-27 Thread Matthew R. Lee
ery byte of the source drive, not jut the ones in use). Although I have > used this method, I wouldn't do it again, I'd set up the partitions, > copy with rsync and run grub to install it on the new drive. Right I'm going to do it this way, in the morning, so if I'm wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Clone a running gentoo machine onto another machine

2008-03-30 Thread Hal Martin
? You cannot use tar unless you create an exclude file, as it will copy the contents of /dev and /sys, which means the entire contents of RAM, and anything that is currently being generated by your devices will be copied as well. Personally, I would use either tar or rsync to do this, however, in sa

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

2009-06-17 Thread Mark Shields
> >> NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE > >> !! > >> !! > >> > >> If you are seeing this message, you are not in > >> the right place. Please check our website > >> http://mirror.arcticnetwork.ca for

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Ow Mun Heng
way to do it, without having the need to use nc (netcat) would > be to use ssh instead. I do it either > > 1. tar -cf / . | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "tar -xvf - -C /" Whoops.. should be tar -cf - / | ssh -c blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED] "tar -xvf - -C /" > 2. rs

[gentoo-user] Sharing portage in my LAN without rsync?

2005-09-15 Thread aka Sevein
Hi! Was Portage developed to work with a /usr/portage directory mounted from another computer with NFS or SMB? I did it and it worked. I thought this way could be easier than rsync when you have maybe two or three computer working with the same network-shared directory. But I noticed a poor

Re: [gentoo-user] subdirectory disappears in /usr/portage

2005-12-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
On 12/5/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have several Gentoo rigs, you can also set up a rsync server. > You actually already have it but it is not turned on. Search for rsyncd > on the forums in the Documentation, Tips & Tricks I have three machines w

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync: mkstemp - failed: Permission denied (13)

2018-03-21 Thread thelma
On 03/21/2018 11:36 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:[snip] >> rsync -av --delete /Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/ >> thelma@10.10.0.6:/Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/ sending incremental >> file list rsync: failed to set times on >> "/Monday/Images/O/OSMANFathia2946/.

Re: [gentoo-user] syncing via via git and signature failure

2018-07-04 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 4 July 2018 19:32:33 BST gevisz wrote: > 2018-07-04 21:01 GMT+03:00 Mick : > > On Wednesday, 4 July 2018 18:57:56 BST gevisz wrote: > >> 2018-07-04 11:55 GMT+03:00 Alex Thorne : > >> >> I use rsync and get the following for more than a day n

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

2013-07-18 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 use

[gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-02 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/30/2013 06:22 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:01:27 +0200, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > >>> mount /usr -o remount,ro mkdir /newusr rsync -a /usr/ /new/usr/ Comment out >>> /usr line in >>&

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing digest for *** Tree looks messed up.

2015-08-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
the original one). > > This was never intended to be a user-visible change (hence no news, > etc). The digest issue was an oversight which was fixed. At this > point rsync should work as it always did, minus one really long sync. > > The main thing you'll probably see is

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

2015-11-12 Thread Grant Edwards
new Manifest and Changelog > files for every(?) package of the portage tree. But no report of bad > digest. Just for fun, I removed the files from the portage tree that were reported as bad, and did another sync. Apparently, the rsync host that got chosen that time had just been updated, be

[gentoo-user] Re: eix-sync data comparison

2014-01-11 Thread eroen
el compilation > take ~8h). While that is not strictly enforced, I myself run an rsync server locally, mostly to ensure that different systems have identical trees, thus preserving my sanity. Instructions for setting up a local rsync server can be found here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switched from rsync to git, now emerge --sync fails

2021-10-14 Thread Miles Malone
work with portage. And then the next logical application is making your own /usr/local/portage not suck. Using git as the main sync instead of rsync is something that's come about way later, and really is fairly niche, compared to what the git capability in portage was originally designed fo

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-04-04 Thread Dale
Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Rsync has a bwlimit argument which helps here. Note that rsync copies > the whole file on what it considers local storage (which can be > mounted network shares) ... this can cause a real slowdown. > BillK > > I ended up just letting it do its thing.  I d

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