best rsync for use with windows (client) and long file names

2009-03-26 Thread dnk
Good day, I have been doing some tests with rsync on windows (client) to backup to a linux server. I started out with cwrsync, but ran into the dreaded "File name too long (91)" error. Apparently due to an issue with the cygwin portion of it. So I was then testing with a newer version of

Re: rsync questions

2009-03-26 Thread gahn
Thanks! --- On Thu, 3/26/09, Harry Mangalam wrote: > From: Harry Mangalam > Subject: Re: rsync questions > To: rsync@lists.samba.org > Cc: ipfr...@yahoo.com > Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 1:05 PM > You use '--exclude-from=/the/exclude/file' > and that file should look like he extract below

Re: rsync questions

2009-03-26 Thread Harry Mangalam
You use '--exclude-from=/the/exclude/file' and that file should look like he extract below The following backs up all the users in my /home with the exceptions listed in it. The ones that have 'hjm' reference my home dir. the ones that have other users (hm/*) will completely skip those dirs.

Re: rsync questions

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 26 Mar 2009, gahn wrote: > > I am trying to back up /export/home/* (all of users) on another machine but > exclude a certain types of files. here is one of my tested exclude files: > > /home/unwanted_dir > > this one works. rsync successfully backed up other directories except the > "un

rsync questions

2009-03-26 Thread gahn
Hi all: I got basic rsync working (not server mode). Basically it went to another server via ssh, backed up subdireactories and stored on the local server. But I am trying to use the feature of "exclude" and could not get it working rigjt. I am trying to back up /export/home/* (all of users) o

Rsync : weird behavior on CentOS 5.2

2009-03-26 Thread Vnpenguin
Hi all, I'm using rsync 2.6.8 on CentOS 5.2 (i386). Here is my command to backup from one disk to other (both in ext3): rsync -av --delete /BAK/backup/a /DISK_B/ rsync runs for some second and stops without any error message on the console. By opening another console, I see: # ps -ef | grep rsyn

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 6209] rsync exiting suddenly

2009-03-26 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6209 --- Comment #1 from m...@mattmccutchen.net 2009-03-26 12:43 CST --- >From the output, it looks like rsync encountered some sort of error and then aborted because it was unable to print the error message to stderr. Perhaps stderr got clo

Re: Vista Junctions

2009-03-26 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 08:34 -0700, Eric Worthy wrote: > I’m trying to use rsync with windows vista. Vista’s odd form of > “links” confuses rsync and I get a recursive infinite loop at every > such junction (until failure when the filename size limit is > exceeded) . > > Could someone please point

Vista Junctions

2009-03-26 Thread Eric Worthy
I¹m trying to use rsync with windows vista. Vista¹s odd form of ³links² confuses rsync and I get a recursive infinite loop at every such junction (until failure when the filename size limit is exceeded) . Could someone please point me to the solution or is there one? The std don¹t follow links s

Re: Is it possible to make rsync VMware split .vmdk's aware?

2009-03-26 Thread Jamie Lokier
Bas Bahlmann || Steady IT Systeembeheer wrote: > Hi Matt, > > I am working a couple of days now with monolithic files and I keep > hitting io time outs on large vmdk's while the line (IPSec tunnel) stays > online. I don't know if it's relevant, but rsync can be extremely slow at transmitting larg

Re: "rsync --delete" won't delete certain files

2009-03-26 Thread Peter Daum
Peter Daum wrote: - The problem only occurs when there is more than 1 file system to sync. When I only backup "/", everything is fine, when I add another source file system, nothing below "/var" will be deleted (I still don't have a clue, why this occurs on "/var" but not on other paths)

Re: "rsync --delete" won't delete certain files

2009-03-26 Thread Peter Daum
Hi, I still couldn't find a really simple test case but at least I can provide some more details regarding this obscure issue: - The problem only occurs when there is more than 1 file system to sync. When I only backup "/", everything is fine, when I add another source file system, nothing b