Re: Slow rsync

2001-10-10 Thread Hans E. Kristiansen
I have had the same problem, but I was using the 2.4.8 kernel ( in a production environment ). I reverted back to 2.2.19, with no changes. I believe that the problem in my case was the 3COM drivers, 3c90x. I have now changed the driver to the 3C59x, which seems to work fine. Although the

Re: rsync copy speed.

2001-10-10 Thread Andre Pang
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 06:53:01PM +0800, Hans E. Kristiansen wrote: Each client uses ssh to start a server script in their home directories, which in turn mounts the client drive to perform the actual backup. On other days, I use rsync -avW, ( which is marginally better than -av ),

Re: rsync copy speed.

2001-10-10 Thread Siebren van der Zee
--- Andre Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ssh is your problem; Yes, encryption can take considerable CPU amount. Have you tried to use the '-c' option of ssh? Blowfish was about 4 times faster than 3des when I last checked it. -- Siebren van der Zee.

Re: rsync copy speed.

2001-10-10 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Andre Pang wrote: ssh is your problem I believe Hans said that he only uses ssh to startup the samba-using process going, and then transfers all files locally with rsync. So, the problem is that samba is doing all the data transfer over the network instead of rsync. So

@ERROR: chroot failed

2001-10-10 Thread Jason Helfman
Why would I be getting this on a box? I have the same permissions on many other directories. Using verbose mode shows nothing more then the error in the Subject line. Any help is appreciated. -- Jason G Helfman Network

Re: @ERROR: chroot failed

2001-10-10 Thread tim . conway
Three things: Does the system support chroot? Is the rsyncd running as root? Is the path correctly specified in the rsyncd.conf? I can't think of anything else I've run into or read of, to cause that problem. If it's not number three, try running it as root. If that fails, try adding

Can we encrypt copied files on target machine?

2001-10-10 Thread Jose' Sebrosa
The problem --- I want to copy a file from machine A (master) to machine B (backup) but I would like to stop root user on machine B to easily look at the file contents. So I encrypt the file to send at machine A and send just the encrypted version to machine B (which has no means to

Re: Can we encrypt copied files on target machine?

2001-10-10 Thread Jacob Martinson
Why not rsync to a system where you are the root user? On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:27:35PM +0100, Jose' Sebrosa wrote: The problem --- I want to copy a file from machine A (master) to machine B (backup) but I would like to stop root user on machine B to easily look at the file

Re: @ERROR: chroot failed

2001-10-10 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:47:11AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote: Why would I be getting this on a box? I have the same permissions on many other directories. Using verbose mode shows nothing more then the error in the Subject line. That error is coming from an rsync daemon server. Are you

Re: @ERROR: chroot failed

2001-10-10 Thread Jason Helfman
I had the wrong path in conf file. Thanks. I found right after I sent the mail. On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 01:07:32PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thus spat: | Three things: |Does the system support chroot? |Is the rsyncd running as root? |Is the path correctly specified in the

Using rsync 2.3.1, individual file size limitation...

2001-10-10 Thread Andre Quintana
Dear Folks, Our Company VESTEK have been using rsync for the past 4 months. As of today, it was pointed out that any file larger then 2,147,483,647kb (to be specific) could not be rsynced. We found too that this message in our com- mon output file showed up: send_files failed to open