Rsync will not work with WD network drive!

2007-08-22 Thread previn
Hi. I have an Western Digital network drive My Book World Edition 500GB.. I have installed cwrsync and try to sync a folder on my local machine(Windows Vista) to my my external network drive ( in the same LAN). The strange thing is that rsync copies folders and files, but the files seems to be

Re: Looking inside device files

2007-08-22 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-08-21 05:55 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: On 8/20/07, Andre Majorel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to make rsync look inside device files ? The goal is to copy the contents of a block device to a regular file incrementally. Short of that, even just getting it to dump the

RE: Looking inside device files

2007-08-22 Thread Tony Abernethy
Andre Majorel wrote: On 2007-08-21 05:55 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: On 8/20/07, Andre Majorel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to make rsync look inside device files ? The goal is to copy the contents of a block device to a regular file incrementally. Short of

Two Qustions: RSync Server load? Atomic Updates?

2007-08-22 Thread doxburger
Hi, i have a couple of questions I would appreciate if someone could answer... 1) Are there any guidelines for estimating server load? I am going to be running a couple of RSync servers and don't even have an order of magnitude guess as to what kind of load they can handle, how many sessions I

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4912] New: rsync crashes with a double free or corrupted memory detection in glibc

2007-08-22 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4912 Summary: rsync crashes with a double free or corrupted memory detection in glibc Product: rsync Version: 2.6.9 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW

Re: Rsync will not work with WD network drive!

2007-08-22 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 8/22/07, previn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have an Western Digital network drive My Book World Edition 500GB.. I have installed cwrsync and try to sync a folder on my local machine(Windows Vista) to my my external network drive ( in the same LAN). The strange thing is that rsync copies

Re: Two Qustions: RSync Server load? Atomic Updates?

2007-08-22 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-08-22 11:38 -0700, doxburger wrote: 2) I will need to update my RSync server on a regular basis. I have been using rsync to send data to the rsync server (makes sense right?). Now and then a user has been downloading from the rsync server, as I am updating the data set, and they get

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4912] rsync crashes with a double free or corrupted memory detection in glibc

2007-08-22 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4912 --- Comment #1 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-08-22 17:48 CST --- Well, could you show us the crashing command line and the file list (unless it's secret)? Could you reproduce the problem in a copy of rsync 2.6.9 that has debug info in

Re: Two Qustions: RSync Server load? Atomic Updates?

2007-08-22 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 8/22/07, doxburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) I will need to update my RSync server on a regular basis. I have been using rsync to send data to the rsync server (makes sense right?). Now and then a user has been downloading from the rsync server, as I am updating the data set, and they

Re: Using --link-dest= multiple times - performance?

2007-08-22 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 8/20/07, Nico -telmich- Schottelius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general I think that rsync could either [...] - or just do stat() for each file in the source in each directory specified by --link-dest This is what rsync currently does.* Thus: - How much more memory will rsync use for

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4912] rsync crashes with a double free or corrupted memory detection in glibc

2007-08-22 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4912 --- Comment #3 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-08-22 20:54 CST --- Created an attachment (id=2878) -- (https://bugzilla.samba.org/attachment.cgi?id=2878action=view) strace output from receiving rsync process -- Configure bugmail: