Re: Rsync Over SSH (Windows XP)

2009-03-14 Thread David Overton
Hi Henri, 2009/3/14 henri he...@stmargarets.school.nz: In essence I would like to determine if rsync a good choice when it comes to the backup of files on a Windows XP machine? Suggestions such as the following will all be warmly welcomed : (1) Do not run rsync over ssh, keep it simple.

Re: Rsync Over SSH (Windows XP)

2009-03-14 Thread Daniel.Li
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 23:41 +1100, David Overton wrote: Hi Henri, 2009/3/14 henri he...@stmargarets.school.nz: In essence I would like to determine if rsync a good choice when it comes to the backup of files on a Windows XP machine? Suggestions such as the following will all be warmly

Re: (Separate patches repository)

2009-03-14 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 16:44 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 06:57:15PM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: I would have thought it more natural to have branches patches-master and patches-3.0.x in the main repository. Is there any reason you made a separate repository? Yes,

AARGH! I can't make rsync not copy dirs with --files-from option

2009-03-14 Thread David C. Rankin
Listmates I'm running rsync 3.02 and I have a simple thing I'm trying to do, but rsync won't let me do it. What I'm trying to do is consolidate saved rpms on openSuSE 11.0 to a central server for local updates. openSuSE saves the rpms in: /var/cache/zypp/packages/repository name

Re: AARGH! I can't make rsync not copy dirs with --files-from option

2009-03-14 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 04:11:12PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: Way too much path, way way too much path. By default, all the path segments in the files-from file are a part of the transfer unless you turn off the implied --relative option, in which case no directory elements from the source

Re: dynamic bandwidth allocation

2009-03-14 Thread Jamie Lokier
Felipe Alvarez wrote: Hi list I was wondering if this is (or could be) possible with rsync. I was wondering if there was a way to change the bandwidth limit (--bwlimit=KBPS) dynamically while rsync is running? Could this be possible maybe with signals like USR1 add 5KBPS and USR2 subtracts