Re: rsync is effecting in the DC switch??

2008-09-23 Thread Benjamin Schweizer
Hi Manuel, at least, this is not a common problem. I'd use tcpdump to see what is really happening on your network card; if possible also run tcpdump on the receiving machines. This tells you exactly what traffic is on the network. If there are any unrequested broadcasts, check the ethernet

rsync many small files

2008-09-23 Thread Mag Gam
At our lab we have storage with many small files. For example a directory can contain over 15,000 files and each file averages about 75k. I would like to sync this to another filesystem on a different server but I am not sure if there is a rsync tuning flag I can use for such a intensive job. I am

error receiving files from protocol 29 server

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Slootman
In debian bug #493559 (http://bugs.debian.org/493559) the problem is that when requesting a file from an older version rsync, the remote server gives an error: $ rsync rsync://rsync.blackholes.us/zones/countries/countries.rbl /tmp rsync: on remote machine: -: unknown option rsync error: requested

(not quite) reproducible segfaults in 3.0.3

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Slootman
In debian bug #498083 (http://bugs.debian.org/498083) someone is getting segfaults reasonably consistently, however when using - it doesn't happen... Fortunately Sven was able to get a good backtrace. I can't quite see what's causing the problem; it does seem to be related to xattrs. Please

Re: rsync many small files

2008-09-23 Thread Sven Hartrumpf
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:49:33 -0400, magawake wrote: At our lab we have storage with many small files. For example a directory can contain over 15,000 files and each file averages about 75k. I would like to sync this to another filesystem on a different server but I am not sure if there is a

Re: rsync many small files

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 23 Sep 2008, Mag Gam wrote: At our lab we have storage with many small files. For example a directory can contain over 15,000 files and each file averages about 75k. I would like to sync this to another filesystem on a different server but I am not sure if there is a rsync tuning flag

Re: (not quite) reproducible segfaults in 3.0.3

2008-09-23 Thread Mike Bombich
I think I isolated that exact same crash just last night. Here's my symbolized crash report: Process: rsync [17295] Path:/usr/local/bin/rsync Identifier: rsync Version: ??? (???) Code Type: PPC (Native) Parent Process: rsync [17294] Date/Time:

help required for passing parameters to rsync within a script

2008-09-23 Thread michael
I'm attempting to write a short script to copy all 'CONC*' files in any subdir under ./ using rsync and filters but I can't get the correct quoting/escaping... any ideas? eg cmd line (all on a single line): /home/horace/mccssmb2/src/rsync-2.6.9__icc/rsync --times --links -z --progress --stats -v

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5789] New: rsync trying to set times on symlinks

2008-09-23 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5789 Summary: rsync trying to set times on symlinks Product: rsync Version: 3.0.4 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Mac OS X Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3

Re: help required for passing parameters to rsync within a script

2008-09-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 22:22 +0100, michael wrote: I'm attempting to write a short script to copy all 'CONC*' files in any subdir under ./ using rsync and filters but I can't get the correct quoting/escaping... any ideas? # filter: all subdirs but only CONC* files FILTER=--filter=+ \*

Re: error receiving files from protocol 29 server

2008-09-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 12:58 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: In debian bug #493559 (http://bugs.debian.org/493559) the problem is that when requesting a file from an older version rsync, the remote server gives an error: $ rsync rsync://rsync.blackholes.us/zones/countries/countries.rbl /tmp

Re: simple incremental backup woes. solutions?

2008-09-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 11:46 +0200, The Peach wrote: Just an info: will this patch be merged in the stable branch of rsync? Most likely not, as it's a quick hack. Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options:

Re: --files-from= and --delete corrent options

2008-09-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 15:43 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running the following command to backup a specific file from /tmp/BACKUPFILE which contains the name Friday2008-09-19.bkf. rsync -ah --delete --numeric-ids --stats --delete-excluded --files-from=/tmp/BACKUPFILE

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5789] rsync trying to set times on symlinks

2008-09-23 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5789 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|

Re: --files-from= and --delete corrent options

2008-09-23 Thread James Robertson
Try this instead: rsync [OPTIONS] --include-from=/tmp/BACKUPFILE --exclude='*' /var/data/shares/vmbackups/ /mnt/usb_backup/SFSYDVS01/daily.0/VM/ This way, rsync will scan the destination directory for deletions (since you have -a without --files-from, which implies -r) and will delete the old

Re: (not quite) reproducible segfaults in 3.0.3

2008-09-23 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:04:50PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: In debian bug #498083 (http://bugs.debian.org/498083) someone is getting segfaults reasonably consistently, however when using - it doesn't happen... Much appreciated! That info made me immediately think that there was an

Re: --files-from= and --delete corrent options

2008-09-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 13:00 +1000, James Robertson wrote: I tried this but it doesn't seem to work for me as you describe. I just created a test setup. The commands I'm running are as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# rsync --version rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 [EMAIL

Re: howto backup a Solaris 7 Server without its OS

2008-09-23 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 15:56 +0200, Jende, Niels wrote: I haven't used rsync as yet but today I have to. Basically I need to backup all datas from one Server to another machine with the whole structure. Here is what I have on mind and I am wondering if that might be a way to go... Connect

Re: --files-from= and --delete corrent options

2008-09-23 Thread James Robertson
Matt McCutchen wrote: On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 13:00 +1000, James Robertson wrote: I tried this but it doesn't seem to work for me as you describe. I just created a test setup. The commands I'm running are as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# rsync --version rsync version 2.6.9 protocol

[SCM] rsync branch, master, updated. v3.0.3-92-g6d301fa

2008-09-23 Thread rsync-cvs
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