Re: RSYNC via pipe/socket ?

2006-02-09 Thread devzero
hello matt, thank you for your reply. as is see, the method you describe is just theoretical, because it won`t work due to buffering issue. furthermore, it still needs ssh or maybe another remote shell. i'd like to leave out ssh or probably any remote shell entirely because encryption is

Re: exclude an excluded file from being deleted by --delete-excluded

2006-02-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 05:35:11PM +1100, Craig Hammond wrote: I have a particular directory in my exclude list, but I want it excluded from --delete-excluded. Sure, that's easy enough using filter rules. Just add a protect filter rule to what you have now and rsync will protect any matching

Re: Rsync 2.6.7pre1 is now available

2006-02-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:10:30AM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: The itemized output now uses 'S' for a special file instead of clumping them together with the 'D' for devices. Is this a Windows thing? Nope. On Posix systems, you need root privileges to create devices (character or block) but

Problems with high load

2006-02-09 Thread Matthias Blohm
Hi, Specs: rsync is running as root with prio: 0 Linux: Debian Kernel: 2.4.30 Rsync: rsync version 2.6.4 protocol version 29 We are having problems with a very high load at the time of an rsync is running. Sometimes if 2 or 3 Rsyncs are running simultanously on to the same machine the load

Re: information on identifying hard links to a file

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 09 Feb 2006, yogesh kulkarni wrote: Am presently working on rsync and would like to know how does rsync identify hardlinks.I have gone through the hlink.c file and have not really understood the flow presented in the function.If anyone can provide

Re: Rsync 2.6.7pre1 is now available

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 08 Feb 2006, Wayne Davison wrote: Rsync version 2.6.7pre1 is now available for release testing. Please give it a try and send email to the regular mailing list with any questions, comments, bug reports, etc. A couple of text improvements / typos that were sent to me... Paul Slootman

Re: Problems with high load

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 09 Feb 2006, Matthias Blohm wrote: We are having problems with a very high load at the time of an rsync is running. Sometimes if 2 or 3 Rsyncs are running simultanously on to the same machine the load goes up on that machine to 10 or more. the datas will be synced in about 2 or 3

Re: Rsync 2.6.7pre1 is now available

2006-02-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:02:44PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: -Note this this option typically achieves better compression ratios that can +Note this this option typically achieves better compression ratios than can I also note that the first this should be that. -options that rsync might

Re: information on identifying hard links to a file

2006-02-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:04:17PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: compare inode and device number. When those are the same, the two files must be hardlinked. Also, rsync only considers files that have a link count larger than 1 (see stat()'s st_nlink) since this allows it to ignore the vast

Re: Rsync 2.6.7pre1 is now available

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Slootman
Is the --ipv4, --ipv6 description twice in the manpage? The description is quite different, so I'm wondering whether it should be in a different context :-) Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read:

Re: Rsync 2.6.7pre1 is now available

2006-02-09 Thread Jamie Lokier
Wayne Davison wrote: - (below) in order to have the rules that are read-in from the file + (below) in order to have the rules that are read in from the file I consider the original a good use of hyphenation to help distinguish the phrase are read-in from a file (using the past-tense of

Re: information on identifying hard links to a file

2006-02-09 Thread Jamie Lokier
Wayne Davison wrote: On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:04:17PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: compare inode and device number. When those are the same, the two files must be hardlinked. Also, rsync only considers files that have a link count larger than 1 (see stat()'s st_nlink) since this allows

Re: Rsync 2.6.7pre1 is now available

2006-02-09 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Jamie Lokier on 2006/02/09 at 18:55 +] I think the hyphen is out of place; it looks very wrong to my eye, but I'm not a grammarian so don't have a fine explanation. You're quite right ... read in should be two separate words as there should not be a hyphen between a verb and

does rsync support acl and xattr?

2006-02-09 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Does rsync support acl and xattr (as with acl and user_xattr mount options)? I saw some acl patches for rsync, so probably it's not officially blessed yet. However, I didn't see any xattr patches - although some talks about it on the list go back into year 2003. So how it is with support

The ACL patch now patches autom4te.cache files!

2006-02-09 Thread Matt McCutchen
I'm trying out rsync 2.6.7pre1. Since the distributed patches now patch generated files, I thought I could simply extract, apply the ACL patch, configure, and make. However, the ACL patch tried to patch autom4te.cache files I didn't have because I didn't autoconf myself. I'm guessing this is an

Re: Rsync 2.6.7pre1 is now available

2006-02-09 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:02:44PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: --- rsync-2.6.7pre1.orig/rsync.yo +++ rsync-2.6.7pre1/rsync.yo @@ -1014,7 +1018,7 @@ as it is sent to the destination machine, which reduces the amount of data being transmitted -- something that is useful over a slow

CVS update: rsync

2006-02-09 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Thu Feb 9 10:25:25 2006 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv3687 Modified Files: NEWS Log Message: - Improved the description of how 'D' because 'D' and 'S' for -i. - Improved the --devices and --specials item, and moved it next to

CVS update: rsync

2006-02-09 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Thu Feb 9 11:56:33 2006 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv12715 Modified Files: rsync.yo Log Message: The -h was missing from the daemon's option summary. Revisions: rsync.yo1.347 = 1.348

CVS update: rsync

2006-02-09 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Thu Feb 9 11:56:41 2006 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv12887 Modified Files: rsync.1 Log Message: Regenerated. Revisions: rsync.1 1.359 = 1.360 http://www.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/rsync/rsync.1?r1=1.359r2=1.360

CVS update: rsync

2006-02-09 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Thu Feb 9 17:32:46 2006 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv641 Modified Files: rsync.1 Log Message: Regenerated. Revisions: rsync.1 1.360 = 1.361 http://www.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/rsync/rsync.1?r1=1.360r2=1.361