Re: Tired of filename too long? Me too...

2003-08-26 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:01:31AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: I assume there's some good reason for the way filenames are faithfully maintained as temp files, but it's a little frustrating when you get filename too long messages as a result... with no indication of what file it was it's

Re: rsync daemon and secrets file

2003-08-26 Thread Martin Pool
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:49:36 -0400 Hardy Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rsync -avv [EMAIL PROTECTED]::test-secret/one_secret /tmp/rsync_test_secret Yes, that's better. Although 'man rsync' does technically describe this in the CONNECTING TO AN RSYNC SERVER OVER A REMOTE SHELL PROGRAM

Re: [patch] New RC to differentiate partial xfers from files thatget deleted before they're xfered

2003-08-26 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 02:55:40PM +0100, Evan Skinner1 wrote: All, During development of a backup solution with rsync I experienced some failed backups because of RC 23, partial transfer. These were because the application using the data I was backing up, was still active, and had deleted

Re: mknod / rsync error

2003-08-26 Thread Martin Pool
On 22 Aug 2003 16:11:21 +0200 Lars Bungum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings! I'm experiencing these problems as described in this mail: --- From: Thomas Quinot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: Rsync 2.5.5: FreeBSD mknod can't create FIFO's This is the only article in this thread

Rsync hangs with protocol incompatibility issues

2003-08-26 Thread Anand Raman
hi guys Environment 2 servers (SunOS 5.8) rsync 2.5.6 Problem For a disaster recovery solution, we are running trying to synchornize interwoven backup stores between these 2 environments (server A and server B) The rsync operation is initiated over the network using 'rsh'. Once initiated from

Re: Rsync hangs with protocol incompatibility issues

2003-08-26 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:53:27PM +0530, Anand Raman wrote: If you are using Solaris, why was your email formatted so poorly? hi guys Environment 2 servers (SunOS 5.8) rsync 2.5.6 Problem For a disaster recovery solution, we are running trying to synchornize interwoven backup stores

RE: Rsync hangs with protocol incompatibility issues

2003-08-26 Thread Anand Raman
Hi jw Thanks for responding.. 1) At work we end up using outlook. That could possibly explain a bit about formatting 2) The error message varies from invocation to invocation. Sometimes it exists with a error message and sometimes it seems to be stuck doing something. (You can think I am mad

RE: Rsync hang on HP-UX 10.20

2003-08-26 Thread xiaoqin_qiu
Hi J.W., I asked this question before, however I could not see your second reply to my question. Could you please answer it again? Sorry about this. Refreshing the question: We downloaded the latest rsync 2.5.6 source code and compiled it on HP-UX for both 10.20 and 11.x. Rsync runs fine if

Re: Rsync hangs with protocol incompatibility issues

2003-08-26 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:34:21PM +0530, Anand Raman wrote: Hi jw Thanks for responding.. 1) At work we end up using outlook. That could possibly explain a bit about formatting 2) The error message varies from invocation to invocation. Sometimes it exists with a error message and

RE: Rsync hang on HP-UX 10.20

2003-08-26 Thread xiaoqin_qiu
Hi J.W., Thank you for your quick response. However I still couldn't see your email. Microsoft outlook couldn't open the email and gave me follow-up flag must be 100 characters or less error. Could you please send it again and remove everything I wrote to keep it small OR remove your

Long pause.

2003-08-26 Thread Rogier Wolff
Hi everyone, I'm trying to rsync a large directory. After pondering on the list-of-files, it's now more or less doing nothing. It's running for over 4 hours now, not doing anything except eating CPUtime on the destination for over half an hour. I don't know what it was doing before that. The

Re: mknod / rsync error

2003-08-26 Thread Lars Bungum
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 03:08, Martin Pool wrote: I'm experiencing these problems as described in this mail: --- From: Thomas Quinot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: Rsync 2.5.5: FreeBSD mknod can't create FIFO's This is the only article in this thread Newsgroups: mailing.unix.rsync

Re: Long pause.

2003-08-26 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:45:10PM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to rsync a large directory. After pondering on the list-of-files, it's now more or less doing nothing. It's running for over 4 hours now, not doing anything except eating CPUtime on the destination for

What does this error message mean?

2003-08-26 Thread Richard Labutis
rsync: error writing 16385 unbuffered bytes - exiting: Broken pipe rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(463) When this happens the file transfer fails. Why does this happen? If its the network, anyway to tell rsync to try again where it left off?

Re: rsync daemon and secrets file

2003-08-26 Thread Hardy Merrill
Martin Pool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:49:36 -0400 Hardy Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO, it would enhance user understanding to provide a concrete EXAMPLE of this. Also, it would help in 'man rsyncd.conf' not only to see an example of an rsyncd.conf file,

Re: rsync daemon and secrets file

2003-08-26 Thread Hardy Merrill
I'll include the attachment this time... Hardy Merrill .TH rsyncd\.conf 5 26 Jan 2003 .SH NAME rsyncd\.conf \- configuration file for rsync server .SH SYNOPSIS .PP rsyncd\.conf .PP .SH DESCRIPTION .PP The rsyncd\.conf file is the runtime configuration file for rsync when run as an rsync

performance suggestion: sparse files

2003-08-26 Thread Jon Howell
So I was transferring a 2GB virtual machine disk image image over a slow wireless link. Of course I used --sparse, to keep the image small on the destination end as well as on the source end. Much to my surprise, I noticed that the transfer took a long time even when it got past the first 0.5GB

Re: rsync daemon and secrets file

2003-08-26 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:04:53PM -0400, Hardy Merrill wrote: Martin Pool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:49:36 -0400 Hardy Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO, it would enhance user understanding to provide a concrete EXAMPLE of this. Also, it would help in

Re: performance suggestion: sparse files

2003-08-26 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:28:12AM -0700, Jon Howell wrote: So I was transferring a 2GB virtual machine disk image image over a slow wireless link. Of course I used --sparse, to keep the image small on the destination end as well as on the source end. Much to my surprise, I noticed that the

Re: rsyncing *to* live system

2003-08-26 Thread jw schultz
Please do not start a new topic/thread by doing a reply or followup to a previous post. Doing so buries your message in an unrelated thread. On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:25:41AM +1200, Steve Wray wrote: Hi there, I have been asked to develop a system for keeping a bunch of machines remotely