Problem with filenames with commas in them

2007-12-12 Thread Chris G
This is a continuation of my previous problem where cp could copy files whereas rsync couldn't. It turns out that the problem is with files which have commas in their names, rsync can write the initial version of the file but it can't check/rewrite them. Here is the error I get from rsync when

Re: Problem with filenames with commas in them

2007-12-12 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 09:33:14AM +, Chris G wrote: This is a continuation of my previous problem where cp could copy files whereas rsync couldn't. It turns out that the problem is with files which have commas in their names, rsync can write the initial version of the file but it can't

Re: Problem with filenames with commas in them

2007-12-12 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 12 Dec 2007, Chris G wrote: While I'm about it the alternative -T option for --temp-dir doesn't work, rsync just says -T=/tmp: unknown option. The short options don't take =, use -T /tmp Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync

problems with rsync 2.6.9 and large files (up to 20GB)

2007-12-12 Thread gorka barracuda
Hi, I'm Jordi and I work at the university of barcelona. I'm trying to make a backup of our several clusters. In the past I worked with rsync with a very good results. When I try to backup some large directories (for example 1.5TB with a lot of large files 20GB) whit this command: rsync -aulHI

Re: Problem with filenames with commas in them

2007-12-12 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 01:20:30PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: On Wed 12 Dec 2007, Chris G wrote: While I'm about it the alternative -T option for --temp-dir doesn't work, rsync just says -T=/tmp: unknown option. The short options don't take =, use -T /tmp Ah, that would explain it!

Question about --copy-unsafe-links

2007-12-12 Thread Chris G
This refers to version 3.0.0pre6 if that's relevant. I was expecting that if I specified the --copy-unsafe-links option to rsync that I'd then get no warnings about 'skipping non-regular file bla/bla/bla' but it doesn't seem to work like that. It *sounds* from the man page that if I set

Re: Question about --copy-unsafe-links

2007-12-12 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 14:13 +, Chris G wrote: I was expecting that if I specified the --copy-unsafe-links option to rsync that I'd then get no warnings about 'skipping non-regular file bla/bla/bla' but it doesn't seem to work like that. You have to additionally pass --links to make rsync

Re: Question about --copy-unsafe-links

2007-12-12 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 09:55:36AM -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 14:13 +, Chris G wrote: I was expecting that if I specified the --copy-unsafe-links option to rsync that I'd then get no warnings about 'skipping non-regular file bla/bla/bla' but it doesn't seem to

Re: problems with rsync 2.6.9 and large files (up to 20GB)

2007-12-12 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 14:28 +0100, gorka barracuda wrote: it seems that rsync is working and finishing but when appears the message that summarizes the transferred files rsync starts the backup again (taking a lot of time) sent 640278263924 bytes received 217256421 bytes 8610488.88

Re: problems with rsync 2.6.9 and large files (up to 20GB)

2007-12-12 Thread gorka barracuda
Hi Matt, thanks for your fastet reply 2007/12/12, Matt McCutchen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 14:28 +0100, gorka barracuda wrote: it seems that rsync is working and finishing but when appears the message that summarizes the transferred files rsync starts the backup again

Re: problems with rsync 2.6.9 and large files (up to 20GB)

2007-12-12 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 17:01 +0100, gorka barracuda wrote: but, the second time that makes this re-rsync it takes the same time that the first time...it seems that it doen't make an incremental backup with our large files... Do you think that the cause could be the problem of the new optimized

rsync 3.00pre6 segfault in add_dirs_to_tree

2007-12-12 Thread Ming Zhang
Hi All I run rsync in an automated environment and it sometime will crash and leave a core dump file. from core dump, gdb shows that gdb) bt #0 add_dirs_to_tree (parent_ndx=-1, from_flist=0x56c590, dir_cnt=1) at flist.c:1422 #1 0x00409eab in send_file_list (f=16, argc=-1,

Re: problems with rsync 2.6.9 and large files (up to 20GB)

2007-12-12 Thread gorka barracuda
It works! Thanks again Matt! 2007/12/12, Matt McCutchen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 17:01 +0100, gorka barracuda wrote: but, the second time that makes this re-rsync it takes the same time that the first time...it seems that it doen't make an incremental backup with our