Hi,
We back up a lot of machines with varying version of rsync installed on
them. The oldest machine (hopefully soon to be retired) is running rsync
version 2.5.7 (protocol version 26).
We back this machine up from / onwards with a few excludes in there. I
noticed today that whenever we use
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Kevin Korb wrote:
1. Update rsync. You are MANY years out of date. Updating rsync is not
going to break whatever obsolete other stuff you are running.
Not an option in this case, but thank you for the suggestion anyway :)
2. If you are rsyncing from / --relative
On Tue, 17 May 2011, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote:
In researching this I find that a change to multi-threaded goodness
would require a massive rewrite, and would only be considered for an
rsync replacement.
Abstracting the core functionality into a librsync.so would be really
spiffy too...
On Tue, 17 May 2011, Matt McCutchen wrote:
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 10:54 -0700, Chuck Wolber wrote:
Abstracting the core functionality into a librsync.so would be really
spiffy too...
All easy to say, harder to do (and maintain). I'm thankful that rsync
meets my needs right now
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Kenneth Simpson wrote:
Hi - there's a flag for rsync to compress the files in transit - is it
possible to compress one side (target) with gzip and have rsync still
work correctly?
It'll still work correctly, but compressing a compressed file can actually
make it
One of our servers is a CentOS 4 Linux/Samba filesharing server that
serves an access database (via a mapped drive) to a client application
running on Windows 98.
Ever since we started rsync'ing it to back it up every night, it required
samba to be restarted after the backup or the clients
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, WCSL wrote:
Seems to work fine without compression -z flag omitted.
Is this going through a Watchguard firewall at any point?
..Chuck..
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, sparty2809 wrote:
What I want to do is use rsync to back up a folder to an external drive.
I would like to keep 30 days worth.
For example: I have backups of June 1 - June 30. Once July 1 comes
along, I want to keep June 2 - July 1 and delete June 1, and so forth.
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, sparty2809 wrote:
I understand how to do the rsync part, but how would I delete the files?
In linux, you delete files with the rm command... In windows you'd
probably want to use deltree... Or, you could get really fancy and use
directed charges of thermite, although that
Have the hard-links optimizations that were described here been
implemented?
http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2004-January/008137.html
In any case, what's the general consensus behind using the --hard-links
option on large (100GB and above) images? Does it still use a ton of
memory? Or
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Paul Slootman wrote:
In any case, what's the general consensus behind using the
--hard-links option on large (100GB and above) images? Does it still
use a ton of memory? Or has that situation been alleviated?
The size of the filesystem isn't relevant, the number of
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Wayne Davison wrote:
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 02:22:46PM -0500, David Harfst wrote:
overflow: flags=0x69 l1=110 12=1633837871 lastname=
ERROR: buffer overflow in receive_file_entry
rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util.c(147)
That's
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
we did some research and we would like to try to write a Tcl/Tk wrapper
around rsync.
Any chance you'd be willing to consider doing it in Java? There's already
at least one, now unmaintained, Java class wrapper to rsync that I know of
(not to be
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any chance you'd be willing to consider doing it in Java? There's
already at least one, now unmaintained, Java class wrapper to rsync
that I know of (not to be confused with the Java implementation of
rsync, also currently unmaintained).
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chuck Wolber wrote:
I've always wanted to have an api like that, but I've always been wary
of chasing protocol changes. A wrapper is the simplest way, but it's
still a bad approach IMHO. librsync is sort of a good idea too, but
the idea
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quote: Without root: Use a non-root account and use passwordless sudo
in the script.
sounds interesting, can you explain how am i suppose to do that ? who
runs the script ? when ?
Check the man page for the sudoers file: man 5 sudoers.
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
So you have it working with cygwin(svr) to cygwin(cli) transfers but not
linux(svr) to cygwin(cli)
No, we have it working where we have to set up a tunnel (via ssh) to the
cygwin machine and then set up rsync as a daemon with paths pre-specified
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
Ok, so it's a Cygwin issue. Might I ask if anyone on the list has a
working cygwin/rsync combo they might be able to share. I've tried
downloading some old cygwin versions but so far nothing has been
working.
We've gotten it to work, but only
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Brad Farrell wrote:
Is there a way with rsync to encrypt data at the source before
transmitting? Not talking about the actually transmission, but the data
itself. I've got a few department heads that want their data secured
before it leaves their computer so that no
Greetings,
When using the --delete argument, is there any way to get rsync to tell me
how much data it deleted after a run?
..Chuck..
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, ches wrote:
I find that rsync is an excellent tool for backing up my large
partitions, often over slower links on the Internet. I run a cron job
every night to update backup mirrors.
But occasionally I make large changes to the source disk, and the rsync
update
rsync commandline:
/usr/bin/rsync -e /usr/bin/ssh --archive --compress --sparse
--verbose --stats --delete --numeric-ids --partial --relative
--one-file-system target.host:/ /destination/path/
target rsync version: 2.6.3
destination rsync version: 2.6.2
The server we're trying to
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Wayne Davison wrote:
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:38:14AM -0800, Chuck Wolber wrote:
inflate (token) returned -5
You should be able to avoid this error by turning off the --compress
option.
Yup, that solved it.
To figure out why it is occurring would require someone
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Tony Shum wrote:
When I use --delete option, it seems to hang for over 8 hours on 4.5Gb
of total data. But when I remove the --delete option, I can see it
starts rsyncing. Has anyone encounter this problem before?
What type of filesystem is your data on (ext3, xfs,
I've been getting this error message for a few days from a customer's
server and we can't seem to decipher it. I googled for it and only found
references to it with respect to much older versions of rsync. We're
running the Debian packaged version of rsync version 2.6.2-3. The customer
side
It would be useful to be able to send a signal to an active rsync process
to get it to throttle (up or down) the bwlimit parameter. Is this a
pandora's box, or is it useful for an interested party to put some effort
into this?
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, jim wrote:
Hey, that's pretty funny. Actually, I would much prefer a Linux
environment, but I don't always get what I want. We are primarily a
Windows and HP-UX shop, so it's not so easy get the powers that be to
buy into a Linux box.
Bummer, I feel your pain. As for
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Loukinas, Jeremy wrote:
Anyone syncing say 18-20gb Oracle dbf files..?
We're syncing well over 185 GB of sleepycat BDB files. I'm not sure how
well they relate to Oracle files.
-Chuck
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Swapnil wrote:
1. I want to know whether rsync server and client are available for
* Novell servers
* Windows 2003
* Windows 2000 server
* Windows NT
* Windows XP
* Xservers
* Mac OS X
* Mac OS 9
I am unaware about
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Chuck Wolber wrote:
5. I want to know If rsync Server is receiving the data of around 1
GB every day what is harware configuration recommended for the better
performance.
We maintain just under 1TB per server with 20 or 30 backup targets and
don't see the load
We are rsync'ing large (hundreds of GB) and constantly changing Berkley DB
(aka Sleepycat) datasets (the RPM database uses the same thing, but its
dataset is extremely small). When a change occurs (insert, update, delete,
etc) in a BDB it has a tendency to propagate through the binary database
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, spivkid wrote:
I guess I need a full copy of the data that is need to be backup from
the remote box on my local box so rsync can compare the file different
each date?
Not really. Having no data on the remote box means that there's more to
transfer across from the source
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Henry van der Beek wrote:
Hi, I am trying to synchronise two directories on separate machines
across a network using rsync, but I want to apply rsync whenever the
contents of the directories are altered, rather than using a cron job.
Does anyone have any ideas? We are
On Thu, 27 May 2004, John Taylor wrote:
If someone were to start maintaining a FAQ, I might be interested in
helping out. Also, I really hate faq-o-matic. I like the plain ole
flat file FAQ in html.
Amen!
-Chuck
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I've never seen this one before. I'm using rsync 2.6.2 on both ends.
Server (Athlon, 768MB RAM) checks out just fine. The only anomoly appears
to be that this process has been running for 248268.43 seconds (this is
not unexpected with this particular host we're backing up).
Commandline:
On Fri, 14 May 2004, Wayne Davison wrote:
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:41:02AM -0400, John Taylor wrote:
I am considering a patch that would exclude compressing a given list
of file extensions when the -z option is used.
Well, since the daemon code has this, it makes sense to at least
On Wed, 5 May 2004, Jim Salter wrote:
Hi everybody -
I'm trying to write a Perl wrapper for some rsync tasks that need doing.
Problem is, there's some sort of odd interaction going on between Perl
and the daemon mode communication for the rsync client, and I'm at my
wit's end in trying
Just built 2.6.1 and started testing it. Nice job guys. I especially love
the --progress and hardlink tweaks.
Quite often, while I have systems backing up out of cron, I'd love to be
able to see the --progress. Unfortunately, it's just not practical to
crank up the verbosity like that on a
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Daemian Mack wrote:
That's more or less the ugly hack referred to previously. It does
work as expected, but personally, I'd rather there were a native rsync
method of achieving this. Less kludgy.
What might be even better is if there were a cleaner API that rsync
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Wayne Davison wrote:
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 04:28:08PM -0400, John Taylor wrote:
I have written a patch for rsync-2.6.1pre-2 which adds a
--time-limit=T option.
Thanks -- I've added it to the patches dir for now. If folks think it
is useful, it will eventually get
System is current Debian stable with rsync version:
* rsync version 2.6.0 protocol version 27
* Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks,
* batchfiles, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
*
* Modified for Debian to have --bwlimit-mod, a variation on the
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Thorsten Schacht wrote:
Hey guys,
I'd like to take a full backup of our email server. Is it possible to
clone the current server (postfix, spamassassin, qpopper...) to another
clean system to have it ready if the current one fails?
Yes. In fact we offer that to our
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Thorsten Schacht wrote:
Sounds goot but I do not need 'one' backup folder. Not an iso. What I
actually mean is that there is a identical clone of the current mail
server.
The backups are made into a folder, but then you chroot into that folder
and run the environment as
During my initial download for my home directory backup, it took rsync
over 6 hours to do the initial backup, but I can FTP the stuff in about
30 Mins. Is Rsync usualy this slow? I have compression turned on, and
its across a 100 MB/S network, Anyone had this problem before?
In this case,
Maybe it is time to upgrade.
Yes, that's the plan. I just figured the list was interested in the
message.
-Chuck
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Just got this from our nightly backup rsync:
overflow: flags=0x6e l1=99 l2=1952984691
lastname=var/www/manual/mod/mod_php4/de/function.get-exte
ERROR: buffer overflow in receive_file_entry
rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util.c(238)
Command exited with non-zero
I've setup SSH for auto login. It seems I can just do
rsync -e ssh -aupg 10.10.10.24:/home/MYDOMAIN /home fine
Do I still need /etc/rsyncd.conf on the server?
Nope. I do the same thing, and I've never needed it.
-Chuck
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One thing that's bugged me is that some of the man page lines in the
options summary are longer than 79 chars and wrap onto the next line.
% SNIP $ SNIP
Comments? Suggestions?
I second your point. It's a real pain in the butt to be in a noisy
datacenter at 4am with nothing but a console
Here's my command copied from a shell script:\
rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh
--recursive --times --perms --links \
/home/* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/remotebackups/
It looks like you don't have the --delete in there (which you should have
to keep identical
I am attempting to use rsync to backup a Win98 laptop to a FreeBSD 4.8
backup server. I have experienced the same problem at roughly the same
point in the process on two occations. The laptop contains ~2.7Gb of
data. On the first attempt we received this error at 2.3Gb and on the
second at
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