Re: performance problem of using parallel rsync to stage data from 1 source to multiple destination

2005-09-02 Thread Paul Slootman
be the cause. The buffer cache you mentioned refers to the cache on the data source, right? Yes. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: performance problem of using parallel rsync to stage data from 1 source to multiple destination

2005-09-01 Thread Paul Slootman
, then the data of the files being handled may still be in the buffer cache so that it doesn't need to get read in from disk again. This will save time... Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org

Re: rsync problem

2005-09-01 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 29 Aug 2005, Zhang, Shu wrote: Thanks for your reply. Here is the info. [snip] I don't see anything that would cause the output you gave... Please upgrade to the newest rsync (2.6.6) and try again. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman

Re: difference between src and destination sizes when rsync was run

2005-08-31 Thread Paul Slootman
differences will do this, if your filesystem rounds up to e.g. 8k blocks for file allocation, then 1000 files of 1 byte will show 8MB; another filesystem that doesn't waste space like that (e.g. reiserfs with tail option) will show a few k. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https

Re: rsync problem

2005-08-29 Thread Paul Slootman
the actual command used to run rsync when it gives this message. Also give details about the runtime environment (operating system, version of such, etc.). And please consider upgrading to the latest version available (2.6.6), there have been many bugs fixed in the meantime. Paul Slootman

Re: unable to open configuration file rsyncd.conf

2005-08-27 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 26 Aug 2005, Wayne Davison wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:55:11AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: This isn't stated that clearly in the manpage, this might be mentioned in the CONNECTING TO AN RSYNC SERVER OVER A REMOTE SHELL PROGRAM section... the distinction between that section

Re: unable to open configuration file rsyncd.conf

2005-08-26 Thread Paul Slootman
is a bit vague as well. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: --files-from... Option gone?

2005-08-16 Thread Paul Slootman
this working again? [EMAIL PROTECTED] cgi-bin]# rsync --version rsync version 2.5.7 protocol version 26 2.5.7 is pretty ancient... 2.6.6 is current, and has the --files-from option. I suggest you upgrade your rsync, and/or go bother rh about providing up to date stuff. Paul Slootman

Re: ACL and RSYNC and -a

2005-08-12 Thread Paul Slootman
. it does not include -H as that incurs a lot more processing. -X and -A aren't (yet?) understood by standard rsync versions, so I don't think it's useful to include those in -a yet. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting

Re: segment fault with 2.6.6 or CVS

2005-07-29 Thread Paul Slootman
standalone as /usr/bin/rsync --no-detach --daemon --config /etc/rsyncd.conf --address=192.168.1.2 Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: hanging problem on cygwin

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Slootman
server, but under the hood remote shells and pipes are involved now. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: --delete problem

2005-07-26 Thread Paul Slootman
is expanded by the shell and rsync thus gets a request to transfer individual files, not the files' parent directory. That says it all! Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart

Re: rsync to a Samba/CIFS filessytem hangs

2005-07-15 Thread Paul Slootman
16327 detached This rsync process is waiting for data to come in on that socket, which most probably should be supplied by the other rsync process. Hence, could you repeat the exercise, but then for all rsync processes? Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org

Re: @ERROR: access denied

2005-07-14 Thread Paul Slootman
]::repositories I get: @ERROR: access denied to repositories from localhost (::1) You allow an IPv4 address '127.0.0.1', however the connection appears to come from an IPv6 address '::1'. Maybe use ::1 instead of 127.0.0.1 in the hosts allow line? Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change

Re: rsync to a Samba/CIFS filessytem hangs

2005-07-14 Thread Paul Slootman
child yet). It shouldn't take up any memory or other resources... The output from strace and lsof would be helpful. However, my impression is that the CIFS filesystem is deadlocking somewhere... Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync

Re: Can Rsync do this?

2005-07-14 Thread Paul Slootman
of which location it is in. You could either use the --update option, or (perhaps better suited to your situation) have a look at unison, which is meant to keep two systems in sync, regardless of where changes take place (so long there aren't any conflicts, of course). Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe

Re: Other possible solutions to: rsync memory usage, paid feature request

2005-07-07 Thread Paul Slootman
to build a tree of md5sums which were hardlinks to the corresponding files. With each new directory the md5sums could be compared and hardlinks recreated. However, I would *love* to see rsync be more memory-efficient... Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org

Re: rsync error ?

2005-07-06 Thread Paul Slootman
in the rsync manpage synopsis do you see that you could run rsync without any options? Isn't it common sense that you need to supply arguments to rsync to let it work? Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http

Re: rsync .gz files?

2005-06-30 Thread Paul Slootman
module on the source host is: [prod-db] path = /prod/db comment = /prod/db uid = nobody Is user 'nobody' allowed to read those files? Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs

Re: Rsync question

2005-06-30 Thread Paul Slootman
are removed and no .. references are allowed to go higher than the source dir. If you don't supply a source dir, to what directory should the file names be relative to? Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http

Re: rsync process - writing to source file system

2005-06-29 Thread Paul Slootman
for linux); check to see that no applications depend on access times though (e.g. mail programs compare modification time and access time to see whether there's new mail). Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http

Re: adding a new log-format escape

2005-06-27 Thread Paul Slootman
to be changed to sizeof buf2 - j * 2. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

OT: Re: Your email requires verification verify#UWUgyaRs5eQ0Ozo94QTL8FjSRuQdWxt

2005-06-27 Thread Paul Slootman
Could someone remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] (most probably) from the list, as people who subscribe to lists but require each and every poster to the list to jump through hoops to have their messages delivered to the person in question don't deserve a subscription... Paul On Mon 27 Jun 2005, [EMAIL

Re: please help -- Variable syntax error

2005-06-04 Thread Paul Slootman
, exactly as shown, and it gave you this error? That's strange, as no variables are involved here. 'rsync' doesn't happen to be an alias, does it? Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart

Re: rsync a remote site with ssh root login disable

2005-05-31 Thread Paul Slootman
is left as an exercise to the reader :-) Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-30 Thread Paul Slootman
(ip.add.re.ss) for both So look at the hosts allow and/or hosts deny options in the rsyncd.conf manpage. (The manual is there for a reason :-) Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart

Re: rsync and cron : connection unexpectedly closed

2005-05-30 Thread Paul Slootman
[24703]: rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(420) Could somebody tell me why. Try adding -v options (often -vv is enough) to show more details. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read

Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-27 Thread Paul Slootman
-a [EMAIL PROTECTED]::rsync_module/files /path/to/bak/ Add nice -n 19 where appropriate :-) (on one or both ends, depending on what you want). Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart

Re: RSYNC doesn't like Unicode?

2005-05-25 Thread Paul Slootman
into that category. Could there be hundreds of Rsync servers silently skipping those odd dozen or so files with the occasional foreign letter in them? ;-) No. Or maybe Rsync isn't used as much as we believe? I believe it's used more than you might think. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe

Re: timestamps

2005-05-25 Thread Paul Slootman
. In this case, disk IO on the sender *is* network traffic... Use -v (one or more times) to see exactly what's going on. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: RSYNC doesn't like Unicode?

2005-05-25 Thread Paul Slootman
characters in their name. I wouldn't be surprised if e.g. W2000 is using wide characters, while XP is using UTF8 (or some other combination of different encodings). Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http

Re: Symlink options (was Mysterious (bogus?) rsync(d) errors ...)

2005-05-20 Thread Paul Slootman
that modifies the symlinks in place); see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=148967 Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Close list to outsider's posts?

2005-05-20 Thread Paul Slootman
(if I do, almost all of it gets caught by spamassassin :-) Closing the list will make it harder for people to quickly get help. In my experience that has a negative impact on the reputation of the project the list is about. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https

Re: Bug#305932: rsync on a directory transfers the files of this directory

2005-05-20 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 19 May 2005, Wayne Davison wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:04:23AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: --files-from transferring the contents of a dir (i.e. including the files in it) specified in the input, even though the files aren't listed in the input. That's as intended, since

Re: Close list to outsider's posts?

2005-05-20 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 20 May 2005, Steve Sether wrote: From the web archives I've seen there's really not much spam at all. Well, Jaugen Leushyn from Bulgaria(?) seemed to want to make a point just now ;-( I just deleted about 20 of his unreadable spam. However, I'm still for not closing the list. Paul

Re: Bug#305932: rsync on a directory transfers the files of this directory

2005-05-19 Thread Paul Slootman
to reproduce this (as it wasn't quite clear to me at first what happened exactly). Any ideas? Please include [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the recipients of any replies, so that the discussion is recorded with the bug. Thanks, Paul Slootman On Thu 19 May 2005, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2005-05-18 11:40

Re: easiest way to do incrimentals?

2005-05-19 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 18 May 2005, Wayne Davison wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:57:27PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: What I've been wondering is whether --fuzzy will also work with --link-dest, i.e. hard-link to files whose names are slightly different but are the same for other purposes Fuzzy

Re: easiest way to do incrimentals?

2005-05-18 Thread Paul Slootman
.)? Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: -x option inoperative with bind mounts

2005-05-18 Thread Paul Slootman
the concept of bind mount exist on systems other than linux?) Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: rsync doesn't exit

2005-05-13 Thread Paul Slootman
there is no output console, even though it's not trying to display anything? I can only think it must be a quirk of the rsync code, but is there a solution? Having strace output would help. At the least, what strace shows when you attach it to the hung rsync processes. Paul Slootman

Re: not deleting from the root

2005-05-13 Thread Paul Slootman
at the uid description in the same man page, in case it still doesn't work... Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Rsync: select: Bad file number

2005-05-09 Thread Paul Slootman
into the right direction, please! Is rsync in the path of the remote user? (Just a random idea.) Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: How about a --min-size option, next to --max-size

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 28 Apr 2005, Wayne Davison wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 03:10:52PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: Would a patch for --min-size be acceptable? Firstly, thanks for the patch -- I've tweaked it a bit and checked it I just saw that my patch for the manpage copied the example from --max

Re: [Bug 2675] --backup --suffix=.foo --delete-after doesn't backup deleted files

2005-05-02 Thread Paul Slootman
the creation of the backup files). So rsync scans all the files twice apparently? Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

non-7bit-ascii chars in filenames

2005-05-02 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 02 May 2005, Paul Slootman wrote: BTW, there was a bug reported about the fact that rsync now shows non-7bit-ascii chars as '?' now... I tried checking the NEWS and OLDNEWS BTW (again): could a log-format option be added that prints the filename unmodified? That could help

Re: How about a --min-size option, next to --max-size

2005-04-28 Thread Paul Slootman
refer to the find(1) manpage :-) I don't know how easily find's source code can be extracted and used in this way... Especially important for keeping up with changes in find... Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read

Re: Bug#306368: filter rules are too modern for remote rsync (which is 2.5.6)

2005-04-26 Thread Paul Slootman
I received the following bug report for the Debian rsync package today. I wouldn't have expected 2.6.4 to refuse to talk to even a 2.6.2 in this way... Perhaps Wayne could comment? Paul Slootman On Tue 26 Apr 2005, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: Rsync fails to push filters to the the remote host

Re: Bug#306368: filter rules are too modern for remote rsync (which is 2.5.6)

2005-04-26 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 26 Apr 2005, Wayne Davison wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:25:14AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: I wouldn't have expected 2.6.4 to refuse to talk to even a 2.6.2 in this way... It shouldn't, and (interestingly) it wouldn't have if --delete had been specified (apparently I did all

How about a --min-size option, next to --max-size

2005-04-25 Thread Paul Slootman
cases has its merits. Would a patch for --min-size be acceptable? Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Need help with rsync

2005-04-25 Thread Paul Slootman
with -vvv Is the rsync binary in a standard place in the PATH for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does /export/home/amg/* expand to files, or also directories? If so, is it your intention to also transfer the contents of those directories? Then you will need some extra options. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe

Re: rsyncd server daemon not allowing connections

2005-04-25 Thread Paul Slootman
: rsync --daemon --server --config-file=/etc/rsyncd.conf . It responds normally: @RSYNC 28 Hopefully not like this... --config-file isn't a recognized option. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org

address option in rsyncd.conf

2005-04-22 Thread Paul Slootman
of the address option should be expanded a bit, e.g. add this line: To make the rsync daemon listen to a single IP address, put the address option in the global section (even if there's only one option). Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org

Re: rsync over ftp

2005-04-20 Thread Paul Slootman
... wait PUT... wait) instead of interactive. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Spam to this list

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 19 Apr 2005, Andrew Gideon wrote: Paul Slootman wrote: There's a difference between giving a 5xx response during SMTP, and first accepting a message and then later bouncing it to the (supposed) envelope sender. I believe spamcop is protesting the latter, not the first. I agree

Re: Spam to this list

2005-04-18 Thread Paul Slootman
it to the (supposed) envelope sender. I believe spamcop is protesting the latter, not the first. I agree with them. 20% of the junk I get are bogus bounces. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart

Re: rsync duplicates after file removal

2005-04-14 Thread Paul Slootman
. So would I, so I'd be interested in seeing what files are duplicated where. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Max filesize for rsync?

2005-04-12 Thread Paul Slootman
on a file that's barely 1GB. Well, it shouldn't... Please define croaking? Any diagnostic messages? Try running with -vvv Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Max filesize for rsync?

2005-04-12 Thread Paul Slootman
, but it did. Curious, I too have had reports of things that previously mysteriously failed, now started working with 2.6.4 :-) Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

trailing slash on module name

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Slootman
it in the rsyncd.conf manpage, where perhaps it may be noticed sooner. If I find the time this week I may come up with an appropriate text :-) Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs

does --files-from transfer files in the order given?

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Slootman
consistent, without any packages listed being temporarily unavailable. I'm sure Wayne knows this without having to look at the code :-) If it does, a note in the manpage would be useful. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before

Re: does --files-from transfer files in the order given?

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sun 10 Apr 2005, Wayne Davison wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 03:38:42PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: There are one or two open bug reports in the Debian bug tracking system that boil down to being able to specify the order files are trasferred. There is no support in rsync for allowing

PATCH: cosmetic fix to output with --existing -vv

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Slootman
not creating new directory newdir/subdir This following simple patch fixes this. Paul Slootman --- generator.c.orig2005-04-10 21:15:07.0 +0200 +++ generator.c 2005-04-10 21:15:08.0 +0200 @@ -665,7 +665,8 @@ if (only_existing statret == -1 stat_errno == ENOENT

Re: Full replication

2005-04-08 Thread Paul Slootman
. Any ideas? Use --delete (it's all in the docs). Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Synchronise trees

2005-04-07 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 07 Apr 2005, Eugene Kramer wrote: take a look at --delay-updates option at http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html: Another possibility is --link-dest to build a new tree in parallel. That's what we do for a local Debian mirror. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options

Re: Rückruf: [rsync-announce] Rsync 2.6.4 released

2005-03-31 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 31 Mar 2005, Markus Kemkes wrote: Markus Kemkes möchte die Nachricht [rsync-announce] Rsync 2.6.4 released zurückrufen. Unfortunately it's not possible to cancel messages sent to a mailing list :-) Paul -- To unsubscribe or change options:

Re: pauses sync'ing between tmpfs and disk on Linux 2.4.x

2005-03-25 Thread Paul Slootman
understanding of that is incorrect. I could switch to an actual ramfs filesystem to eliminate swapping as a possibility. However, that would require a reboot unfortunately so I'd have to try it later. :-) You could try removing the swap, if it's not needed anyway... swapoff -a Paul Slootman

Re: rsync with 8bit filename characters or UTF8

2005-03-08 Thread Paul Slootman
to use UTF-8 in anything that refers to filenames rsync doesn't care about special chars in filenames (or in the contents of files), it does a simple byte-for-byte match. In UTF-8 ö will be stored as two bytes... Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org

Re: Rsync write behaviour / efficiency

2005-03-07 Thread Paul Slootman
at the beginning of the remote file? Inserting bytes at the beginning of a file can't be done, at least not on unix-like systems. That can only be done by copying the file. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http

Re: wierd duration shown in progress with 0 byte files

2005-03-05 Thread Paul Slootman
not zero, while the then branch went about it another way (i.e. setting diff to 1 if it was zero). I don't like inconsistencies like that in programs, esp. so close together... Doing the division only if diff is 0 saves an assignment and a division in the case it was zero... Paul Slootman

Re: --one-file-system problem

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Slootman
my time to come up with a --really-one-file-system patch? I think there wouldn't be much demand for it, it's a pretty specific case. I'm guessing it would also impact performance, unless e.g. you use /proc/mounts (on Linux) to generate an internal --exclude list... Paul Slootman

Re: Rsyncing really large files

2005-02-24 Thread Paul Slootman
there's mainly only insertions. I never had the time to persue it, though... Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Incremental Backups

2005-02-17 Thread Paul Slootman
month I would like to have as well. Take a look at http://www.dirvish.org/ which makes it easy to do what you want. It's sort of a wrapper around rsync. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org

Re: getting rsync to work +automating password line

2005-02-11 Thread Paul Slootman
! The file contains a single line with the password? There is newline after the password? The file is readable for the process (but not for others!) ? You could also put the password in the environment variable RSYNC_PASSWORD. Check that the environment can't be read by all users on your system. Paul

Re: getting rsync to work

2005-02-10 Thread Paul Slootman
. Add that (with the correct path to the rsync binary on the remote!) and things should start working. PS: what's the 'n' doing between /test1 and serverA: in your command? I hope it's a typo... Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before

Re: rsyncd.conf is not created although successful installation of rsync on debian but

2005-02-07 Thread Paul Slootman
/bin/rsync Ah, you're building your own rsync. (Why?) Please let me know how to create configuration file and what could be reason that ? Read the doc for rsyncd.conf and create it yourself by hand, it's impossible to create an rsyncd.conf file that does what you want. Paul Slootman

Re: RSync with /really/ long file lists

2005-01-20 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 03 Dec 2004, Brandon Knitter wrote: rsync 2.5.7 linux RHES v3 We need to sync over 4 Million files, and when we run rsync we run out of memory! :( Try the latest version, there have been improvements in memory efficiency since 2.5.7. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change

Re: Rsync - Copying Every File Every Time

2005-01-10 Thread Paul Slootman
for changes :-) Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: date problem with ntfs or vfat mounted file sytem

2005-01-05 Thread Paul Slootman
option. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: can not start rsync, address already in use

2004-12-20 Thread Paul Slootman
first had inetd configured to listen to port 873? On some systems you can do fuser 873/tcp to show what's using that port. Aside: while you're at it, why not upgrade to the latest version of rsync. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: rsync and broken symlinks

2004-12-16 Thread Paul Slootman
ever use access() on a symlink. Comments or disagreement? Just to be certain - readlink() is only called if --copy-links is NOT specified? In that case, I agree. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http

Re: rsync: a bit of confusion

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Slootman
it will do as you gave the -a option. You connect to the rsync daemon by using a command line like: rsync -avz 192.168.10.1::qmail-control . Of course, you will have to have started the daemon on 192.168.10.1 first. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman

Re: Rsync progress indicator?

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 07 Dec 2004, Dag Rune Sneeggen wrote: I've been reading through the man pages for rsync, yet I can't seem to find a way to provide progress indication and/or current download speed for total and/or individual files... How about --progress? Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change

Re: man page: -u: mention when the dates are the same

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 30 Nov 2004, Dan Jacobson wrote: Paste error: --size-only Normally rsync will skip any files that are Normally rsync will This was a patch error in de Debian 2.6.3-1 version that has already been fixed in the 2.6.3-2 version. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe

Re: Uninitialized static structure in generator.c/write_sum_head

2004-11-28 Thread Paul Slootman
correctly be: const struct sum_struct null_num = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, NULL}; Perhaps more readable, but in no way more correct. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart

Re: patch for replacing non-printable chars in filenames

2004-11-26 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 26 Nov 2004, Stefan Nehlsen wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 05:29:57PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: +/* Replace non-printing chars in the string, most probably due to + * wierd filenames. Skip the first and last chars, they may be \n */ +int i

Re: patch for replacing non-printable chars in filenames

2004-11-25 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 23 Nov 2004, Wayne Davison wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 05:29:57PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: Here's a patch. Opinions? I think that a better place to munge the name would be in the safe_fname() routine in utils.c (which already munges newlines characters into question marks

patch for replacing non-printable chars in filenames

2004-11-23 Thread Paul Slootman
this in rsync (in the rwrite() function). Here's a patch. Opinions? Perhaps don't do it unconditionally, i.e. offer some way to turn it off? Paul Slootman --- log.c.orig 2004-10-04 11:51:37.0 +0200 +++ log.c 2004-11-23 17:27:29.0 +0100 @@ -180,6 +180,15 @@ buf[len] = 0

Re: specifying --bwlimit together with --daemon fails

2004-11-18 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 17 Nov 2004, Wayne Davison wrote: See the recent discussion about this: http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg11850.html I need to subscribe a gmail account to the rsync list, I didn't find that message in my own archive :-( Thanks. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe

specifying --bwlimit together with --daemon fails

2004-11-17 Thread Paul Slootman
:-( ). Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: timestamp question

2004-11-12 Thread Paul Slootman
of memory). I ended up doing each day separately with a --link-dest pointing to the previous day... Only took 5 days :-/ Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Copying Oracle data files

2004-11-11 Thread Paul Slootman
making the snapshot. That's what we did at a large oracle place where I used to work (using Solaris and a NetApp filer). Making the snapshot only takes a couple of seconds, so this has negligible impact on the performance. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org

Re: rsync --rsh not reading .ssh/config

2004-11-11 Thread Paul Slootman
read... Use a single colon, and it should be as you expect. This is covered in basically the first page of the manual. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: pb with fat FS on linux with rsync

2004-11-05 Thread Paul Slootman
of hard links. Perhaps (if it's just for a backup) it's better to use tar to write a tar file to the FAT partition. Otherwise don't use -aH, but only use those options that are possible with FAT. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync

Re: rsync doesn't delete unreferenced directories.

2004-11-02 Thread Paul Slootman
on the other side. For example: [...] I realize this behaviour is probbably by design but is there a way to get rsync to delete directories no longer being backed up? Perhaps use --delete-excluded and --exclude the directory? Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org

Re: --delete option

2004-10-30 Thread Paul Slootman
is going to do without actually doing anything. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: 8 bit filenames?

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Slootman
problem. One potential problem is if the character set on the two systems is different. Because rsync does nothing with the bytes, a system that uses e.g. UTF8 and a system that uses iso8859-1 will show the same string of bytes differently if there are any 8-bit chars used... Paul Slootman

Re: Rsyncing files

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Slootman
file, it has no concept of records or such. I suggest you make some other way of generating the passwd and shadow files from different input files (system entries and user entries), so that you can transfer the files with just the user records. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options

Re: question about 2.6.3pre2's --link-by-hash behaviour

2004-09-24 Thread Paul Slootman
= 0; Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: question about 2.6.3pre2's --link-by-hash behaviour

2004-09-24 Thread Paul Slootman
checksum, and I wonder why. The patch's calculated checksum is also always different to the rsync checksum. It forces the checksum-seed to 12345, although I can't see why. I get the feeling the patch may need to be rewritten from scratch... Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: http

Re: question about 2.6.3pre2's --link-by-hash behaviour

2004-09-23 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 22 Sep 2004, Erik Jan Tromp wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:21:31 +0200 Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had hoped to use it both for my rotating backups for my (unofficial) slackware mirror. Hmmm... For a slackware mirror I expect that it would be fine. To my eyes

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