Where did the files go?

2003-03-21 Thread Amy Anderson
Hi All, I am a newb to Rsync and I have a question. I am trying to back up our main server to a remote server. I have rsyncd.conf on the remote computer. I ran this command from the remote computer and it looked great the whole 2 seconds it took to runit said it completed but nowI cant f

RE: CYGWIN Rsync exclude/include problem

2003-03-21 Thread Mike Lavender
Thank you all for your input. It turns out that the problem is a CRLF/LF problem. I'm including the explanation of the problem/solution for others. Using -vvv resulted in the listing of include/excludes as follows (I have only listed a couple of lines to keep it short): ,exclude)de(! ,exclude)de

Re: CYGWIN Rsync exclude/include problem

2003-03-21 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:22:15PM -0500, Mike Lavender wrote: > > Command Line: > rsync -avvvzl --stats --delete --delete-excluded > --exclude-from=c:\rsync\includes.txt /cygdrive/c/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]::LaptopBackup First, get rid of the backslashes. Second, drop verbosity to just -vv (not -vvv)

Can you run rsync over a pipe?

2003-03-21 Thread Seann Herdejurgen
Can rsync be run over a pipe like tar does? For example, I can use tar like this: tar cf - files | ssh host '(cd /dir; tar xf -)' I want to transfer a bunch of files using rsync (over SSH) every few seconds, but the overhead of setting up/tearing down the SSH connection is killing me. So,

Re: CYGWIN Rsync exclude/include problem

2003-03-21 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:22:15PM -0500, Mike Lavender wrote: > + /Databases/#Include /Databases & subfolders Do you realize that this is specifying a file whose name starts with 4 spaces and contains a '#' character in it? If you want to put comments into your include/exclude file, they mus

Re: CYGWIN Rsync exclude/include problem

2003-03-21 Thread Max Bowsher
Dalton Harvie wrote: > Newbie response: > > How about: > > rsync -avvvzl --stats --delete --delete-excluded > --exclude-from=c:\rsync\includes.txt /cygdrive/c/* [EMAIL PROTECTED]::LaptopBackup > > as I've had problems with the --delete flag without using the * before NOT advisable. Adding * is unn

Re: CYGWIN Rsync exclude/include problem

2003-03-21 Thread Max Bowsher
Mike Lavender wrote: > I'm having troubles with getting rsync 2.5.5 (CYGWIN version) to > include/exclude files they way I expect it to. I have mulled over the > list postings and man pages regarding this and I am either missing > something or ... well I don' know. > > I have a drive with 12 folder

Re: CYGWIN Rsync exclude/include problem

2003-03-21 Thread Dalton Harvie
Newbie response: How about: rsync -avvvzl --stats --delete --delete-excluded --exclude-from=c:\rsync\includes.txt /cygdrive/c/* [EMAIL PROTECTED]::LaptopBackup as I've had problems with the --delete flag without using the * before (see down the list a bit, "can't delete older file/directory li

CYGWIN Rsync exclude/include problem

2003-03-21 Thread Mike Lavender
I'm having troubles with getting rsync 2.5.5 (CYGWIN version) to include/exclude files they way I expect it to. I have mulled over the list postings and man pages regarding this and I am either missing something or ... well I don' know. I have a drive with 12 folders in the root however, I only

Re: --link-dest uid/gid checking bug?

2003-03-21 Thread Chris Darroch
Hi -- J. W. Schultz wrote: >>I was very keen to download rsync and give it a whirl with the >> new --link-dest feature. However, I was terribly puzzled when I >> couldn't seem to get it working, even though --compare-dest with >> the same argument would work. It seemed like new files would