Re: New tutorial and script for rsync resources page

2011-02-02 Thread nomnex
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:53:01 -0700 (PDT) Wolfram Volpi wrote: > The rsync tutorial is for new rsync users. Three small backup > examples thoroughly explain rsync --link-dest, --recursive, and > --exlcude-from options. > http://sites.google.com/site/rsync2u/home/rsync-tutorial Thank you very much

Re: Protocol stream error on extended attribute, silent failure to copy all attributes

2011-02-02 Thread Matt Rosenberg
> From: Henri Shustak > Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 00:48:02 +1300 > To: rsync > Subject: Re: Protocol stream error on extended attribute, silent failure to > copy all attributes > > [snip] > > Recently, a user posted the following rsync error to the LBackup mailing list > : > >> "rsync: writefd_unb

Problems with modification times in a FreeBSD jail

2011-02-02 Thread Josh Endries
Hello, I'm having problems with rsync 3.0.5 setting the mtime. I haven't see anything in the newer changelogs about it though... I am running rsync over SSH *from* a jail on one machine *to* a different host machine, and pulling files from that host into the jail. The problem is that the

rsync -a doesn't copy ext3 attributes

2011-02-02 Thread Jonas Pasche
Hi folks, I just stumbled upon the fact that rsync doesn't preserve at least the ext3 "immutable" flag - while it should do so when using -a, IMHO. Quick test case (tested on CentOS 5.5 w/ rsync 2.6.8 as well as on Fedora 13 w/ rsync 3.0.7): # touch testfile # chattr +i testfile

Re: Protocol stream error on extended attribute, silent failure to copy all attributes

2011-02-02 Thread Henri Shustak
> I'm using rsync 3.0.7 on Mac OS X 10.6, compiled according to Mike > Bombich's instructions at http://www.bombich.com/rsync.html. Rsync > repeatedly exits with a protocol data stream error when trying to copy > some com.apple.FinderInfo extended attributes. While testing this issue, > I found th