rsync questions

2001-06-05 Thread Gonçalo Gomes
Dear rsync users, i'd like to ask some questions about rsync, 1) i'm going to use rsync to upload backups to backup machine, that machine will hold only backups. - does it keeps the ownership of the files if the users/groups, they don't exist in the remote machine (backup machines) or it

More hang-fixing work

2001-06-05 Thread Wayne Davison
I think I've tracked down another hang in rsync 2.4.6. This one appears to be caused by the sender process finishing up all its work and going into a pid-reading loop before it finishes reading all the error stream coming in from the generator process -- if this data is large enough, the

Another move-files patch

2001-06-05 Thread Wayne Davison
I've worked up a new --move-files option that doesn't delete the files on the sending side until the receiver is known to have successfully written the data. I didn't want to implement a delete-pass at the end of the send since I wanted the files to get deleted as we go. However, because of the

Re: rsync questions

2001-06-05 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:25:12AM +0100, Gonçalo Gomes wrote: Dear rsync users, i'd like to ask some questions about rsync, 1) i'm going to use rsync to upload backups to backup machine, that machine will hold only backups. - does it keeps the ownership of the files if the

error message

2001-06-05 Thread eric.deandrea
i am running rsync from a shell script out of cron to transfer a module between 2 solaris servers. I am getting the error Argument too long. What does that mean? I can run the rsync command without a problem from the command line. Its only when the rsync command is started from inside the shell