Re: Rsync - expensive startup question

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:09:42PM -0500, Cedric Puddy wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm using rsync with some large trees of files (on one > disk, we have 30M files, for example, and a we might > be copying say, 500k files in one tree. The file trees > are reasonably balenced -- no single directory

Re: malloc errors? out of memory with many files on HP-UX

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:33:07AM -0600, King, Daniel wrote: > Hi, folks. > > I've started getting these errors from rsync, and any help would be > appreciated: > > >ERROR: out of memory in string_area_new buffer > >rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util.c(115) > >ER

Re: rsync enhancement - check destination before creating file list?

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:36:20PM -0500, Bob Bagwill wrote: > Wouldn't it make sense for rsync to check for the existence of the > destination directory before creating the file list? It's a waste to > stat(2) thousands of files only to abort because the destination doesn't > exist. There are

Re: ssh & keep absolute local paths from --include-from=file remotely

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:58:07AM +0100, Thomas Otto wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to do a IMHO rather trivial thing with rsync via ssh: > > I have some files under /etc and some under /home/thomas, I want to > rsync just these to a remote PC with a similar setup where they should > end up in t

Re: Smoother bandwidth limiting

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 06:08:28PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > I'm getting more and more convinced that --bwlimit should > never have gotten into rsync. Bandwidth management belongs > at the system level or let it be done with a common > networking utility instead of at the ind

Re: Smoother bandwidth limiting

This again? Where 1024 was arbitrary not magic. This would reduce the maximum throughput on a 100HZ system to ~100KB/sec no matter what the --bwlimit value is. I'm getting more and more convinced that --bwlimit should never have gotten into rsync. Bandwidth management belongs at the system leve

Re: rsyncing Maildirs

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:48:37AM +0100, Snorre Narum Garmann wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to take a backup of all the users emails on a server using rsync, > but there is probably something about the patterns I haven't understood > quite. > > > > Every user has a folder called Maildir in their

Re: --link-dest

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:24:34AM -0500, Joe Batt wrote: > Why does --link-dest assume -ugp ? > > This patch removes those assumptions allowing mortal users to use > --link-dest for back ups. (I think... I didn't look at the large > picture.) It used to assume -ugp because if it didn't then do

Re: workaround for HFS+'s case-insensitivity?

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:29:59AM +, Daniel M. Drucker wrote: > > I am using Mike Rubel's snapshot-style rsync to do backups from my web > server (Linux) to my desktop (MacOS X). Mostly, this works great, > except where case sensitivity (or rather, HFS+'s semi-lack thereof) > causes problems.

Re: --move instaed of --delete

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:34:41PM +0100, Maik Holtkamp wrote: > Hi, > > I have set up daily backup using rsync to collect the data and > afterwards I use afio to write the data to tape. > > I do: > > $RSYNC -avbu --backup-dir=$PART/$HOST/old -e ssh --exclude-from $EXCLUDE > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/

Re: Mirroring cvs archives

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:25:18PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:02:50PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > If full consistency is wanted there may be a file you can check before > > and after the rsync to see if anything changed and then do a resync. > >

Re: add specify network interface option?

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:17:56AM -0500, Bob Bagwill wrote: > I'm finding curl's [http://curl.sourceforge.net/] --interface option > useful. It lets you specify which network interface to use. It's handy if > you have a slow interface and a fast one, and you want to force traffic > over the f

Re: Mirroring cvs archives

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:08:48AM +, Andrew Walrond wrote: > I have started mirroring various cvs archives such as gcc, but I have started > wondering/worrying about the validity of doing this. If the cvs archive is > busy and potentially subject to many accesses during the rsync process, is

Re: rsync and smbfs

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 01:36:27AM -0500, Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > I'm trying to configure rsync snapshots as described at > http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/. I'm > essentially using the following commands: > > mv backup.3 backup.tmp > mv backup.2 backup.3 > mv backup.1 backup.2

Re: rsync -vae ssh user@host1:/tmp/dir user@host2:/tmp/

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:17:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 10/24, jw schultz wrote: > > No. > > > > Use ssh to set up port forwarding. If you know not how, use > > the ssh resources. > > I can't because of firewalls. > > workstation ca

Re: Synching text files.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:52:08PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:15:31AM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: > > > > It will find matching blocks at arbitrary byte offsets. > > > > Think of the original file as a sequence of fixed sized blocks. > > Inserting or deleting a single

Re: Need some help please.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:23:20AM -0500, Webmaster of rcrrich.com wrote: > Hi, > > I have a little problem and I am trying hard to understand but > it is very hard when you get to my age and truly when things change so fast > it just keeps getting harder to keep up but I am trying. Wh

Re: simple compile

ild isn't doing it there must be something wrong with your source tree. > > thanks for your help, > > > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, jw schultz wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:39:37PM -0800, Tom Holton wrote: > > > > > > I could not find this qu

Re: can't manage to get --link-dest working.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 09:53:30PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > I can't manage to get rsync's --link-dest option working. > Here is a step by step script which doesn't produce the good results. > > # create test dir > mkdir testrsync > cd testrsync > mkdir orig > echo "abcd" > orig/test

Re: simple compile

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:39:37PM -0800, Tom Holton wrote: > > I could not find this question anywhere, but I apologize if it is and I > just missed it. > > Running an Alpha, OSF1 V5.1 1885 > > configure went fine. > > compile failed: > > cc -I. -I. -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I./popt -c lib/getaddri

how rsync works

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 03:49:45AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > Aside from numerous other weaknesses that have crept into > the manpage i do note that there doesn't seem to be any > point where it is mentioned that rsync replaces destination > files rather than updating the

Re: include & exclude dosn't work...

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:09:23AM +0400, Dennis Chelukanov wrote: > Hello rsync, > > I run Rsync as standalone server (--daemon). Here is my rsync.conf > file > [snip] > exclude * > include *.mp3 > > Then i run rsync : > > /etc > rsync rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp3files/test/ >

Re: third location sync

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:25:26PM -0400, Paonia Ezrine wrote: > Can this be done with rsync? > > I have two machines, (a) and (b). > (a)= has a fast connection > (b)= has a very slow connection > Both have a directory called /debian which on day one is identical. > > The copy of /debian on (a) i

Re: issue with large number of files

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 03:22:32PM +0200, Sven Geisler wrote: > Hi, > > I use rsync to syncronize two systems. > There are 2 million + files. > > My problem is > 1. rsync is very slow (it needs more than 48 hours) > 2. rsync needs too much RAM (ca. 750 MByte on each server) You must have long pa

Re: symlinks

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:15:32PM +0200, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: > I'm trying to sync a tree containing symbolic links to files outside > that directory tree. I've tried with -L and --copy-unsafe-links but > apparently the files pointed by symbolic links are always re-copied > over and over ag

Re: v2.5.6 on AIX and large files

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:11:59PM +0100, Robert Cross wrote: > > Abstract: Looking for technical assistance with rsync version 2.5.6 > protocol 26 on AIX. > > Trying to use rsync (version 2.5.6) to sync two AIX-based systems the other > day, and a couple of the filesystems (7 out of 18 in total)

Re: Trivial documentation patch

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:35:48PM +, Jon Jensen wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm not sure if this is the place or not, but I wanted to pass on this > patch (against CVS as of today) to document two exit values that are used > by rsync but not yet in the docs. Please let me know if there's a better

Re: rsync -vae ssh user@host1:/tmp/dir user@host2:/tmp/

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:23:08AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 10/24, pod wrote: > > If you are able to make ssh connections from host1 to home then the method > > outlined in > > No, sorry for omitting that information, but the two remote hosts cannot > connect to the "home" machine (my

Re: Question About Rsync on HP-UX

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 08:21:34PM -0500, Chao,Eisen R. wrote: > Hi All: > > > I thought the default behaviour for Rsync was that it would only > overwrite > destination files that have a lesser date than the source file. Instead No. Rsync _replaces_ the destination file. And if --times is ena

Re: rsync on OpenVMS

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:59:48PM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > jw schultz wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:28:11PM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > > > >> > >>There are approximately 235 global and static variables in rsync, and > >>of those 105 a

Re: Synching text files.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:31:12PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to sync text files where lines get inserted and > deleted. From what I understand, rsync uses blocks to compare > and so can't find much data that matches. > > Would it be possible to make it work so it finds block

Re: The rsync daemon as a gateway service?

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:43:38AM -0500, K S Braunsdorf wrote: > > In rsyncd.conf I'd like to be able to specify something like: > [module1] > gateway 10.168.172.9 > > or (I think we have to change the protocol a little for this one): > [module2] > redirec

Re: rsync --dry-run --link-dest problem

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:16:04AM -0700, Russell Senior wrote: > >>>>> "jw" == jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > jw> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:29:04PM -0700, Russell Senior wrote: > >> I am trying to use rsync for making snapshots,

Re: rsync --dry-run --link-dest problem

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:29:04PM -0700, Russell Senior wrote: > > I am trying to use rsync for making snapshots, sharing hardlinks at > the destination using the --link-dest option. In conjunction with > this, I would like for --dry-run to report some reliable-ish number > for how much space it

Re: rsync on OpenVMS

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:28:11PM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > jw schultz wrote: > > > >Sounds promising. > > > >The pitfall you with rsync in threads is that rsync forks > >with a COW expectation using a great deal of data set prior > >to the f

Re: Feature Request - Recursive Rsync Parameter - Example Script

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:25:51PM -0700, Matt Olson wrote: > I wanted to flag a problem and offer a possible solution. > > The problem: > > large rsync operation fails on machines with modest amounts of memory. > > Proposal: > > Add a parameter to rsync recursive to specify a recursion level (

Re: Is anyone replicating .5TB or higher?

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:56:20AM -0700, Laura Ausel wrote: > I've heard about using rsync to replicate data across the WAN, but need to know > if anyone is using it on a large scale. Many are using it on large scales. There are scaling issues and mitigation depends on the definition of large.

Re: --bwlimit not working right

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:23:27AM -0500, John Van Essen wrote: > On 17 Oct 2003, Rene Schumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello! > >  > > I cant get the bwlimit option working right. > > If i set this option over 400 kbyte per sec i still only get 400kbyte > > per sec, whether wich value i

Re: rsync on OpenVMS

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:20:27AM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > John E. Malmberg wrote: > > > >While my testing is far from complete, and I have a few OpenVMS specific > >things to work out, it appears that the changes to make the client use > >pthreads were minor, and as of yesterday a clien

Re: compression, built-in or ssh ?

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 09:34:17AM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: > jw schultz wrote: > > >>What is the general recommendation for compression when using ssh? > >> > >> > >Use rsync's compression. > > > > > >>If so, i

Re: Versioned files (take 2)

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:09:03PM -0400, Jason M. Felice wrote: > I've pondered the feedback and revised my proposal to the client. Here > is the revised project objectives. Notably, this is the addition of 4), > the deletion of the whole slew of items actually related to handling > versioned fi

Re: compression, built-in or ssh ?

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:51:53AM -0400, Brian K. White wrote: > What is the general recommendation for compression when using ssh? Use rsync's compression. > Is it a wasteful performance hit to have both ssh and rsync do compression > (when using rsync over ssh)? Yes. > If so, is there a clea

Re: Rsync download traffic

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:38:32PM -0500, Max Kipness wrote: > > > I started monitoring lan traffic with RRDTool on a linux > > > box the other day that runs rsync, and I've found what I would > > > consider a strange traffic pattern. This linux box rsync > > about 2Gb of > > > data to a local s

Re: Rsync download traffic

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 01:44:46PM -0500, Max Kipness wrote: [reformatted, please use shorter lines next time] > Hello, > > I started monitoring lan traffic with RRDTool on a linux > box the other day that runs rsync, and I've found what I > would consider a strange traffic pattern. This linux bo

Re: troubleshooting unexpected disconnects

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:49:23PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi list, > > I am still having troubles with rsync, as on large areas in our setup, it > keeps dying unexpectedly. See my previous post two days ago for the > initial tries. I realize it is a somewhat broad question, but how do I

Re: Raw Volumes?

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:49:41PM -0500, King, Daniel wrote: > Hi, folks. > > As a logical next step, I'm looking for information on synchronization of > raw volumes - as for Sybase or DB2 raw volumes. A search on the list > archive for "raw volumes" reveals much about network and Samba-type raw

[alert] DST change and date comparisons

Description of Problem We are rapidly approaching the time of year when some will transition from standard time (ST) to daylight savings time (DST) and others will make the opposite transition. These vernal and autumnal transitions have important implications for those with Micro

Re: Need to rename file copied using rSync from NT to Solaris

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:01:21PM -0400, Joshi, A (Anant) wrote: > Hi, > > We want to copy a file from NT to Solaris using rSync. > > There is a job running on Solaris looking for this file. > So we want to copy the file with different name and > then rename it to what the job is looking for. >

Re: Verbose logging

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:49:47PM -0400, Amy A wrote: > > I have a simple question I think. I have been using rsync for a year now and > all is going well. I have it set up in my cron.daily with the -azv option. > When I receive the email upon completion of the cron is there any options I

Re: rsynced files "collecting" blocks?

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:34:21PM +0200, Dipl.-Ing. C. Lechleitner wrote: > Hello! > > We are synching some server data (websites, logfiles, ...) with rsync via > ssh and are detecting a weird problem: > > Certain files and directories, apparently those who are regulary rsynced over > the WAN, t

Re: rsync freezes on solaris

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:33:49PM +0530, Anand Raman wrote: > hi guys > > We use rsync extensively in keeping the site resources in > synch across redundant infrastructure. While attempting > rsync for one of the boxes we find that the rsync process > simply sleeps. The situation remains the sa

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:03:28PM +1000, Christopher Vance wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 06:54:02PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > >It isn't yet. The debian version of gzip might have the > >patch applied because it is an issue for the debian mirror > >sites but i don&#

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:31:36AM +1000, Christopher Vance wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:20:48PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > >>It will never help with rsync-2.5.6.tar.gz vs. rsync-2.5.5.tar.gz > >>anyway, since any small change early in the stream will cause the entire &

Re: Token.c appears to have a bug.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 05:41:56PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 04:54:20PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > Having looked at that bit of code now. I am a bit concerned about the > > use of shift operators on signed integers here. > > I don't see

Re: Token.c appears to have a bug.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 04:43:45PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 07:29:24PM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > > Or should there be parenthesis around (n >> 8) to make sure that it > > happens before the most significant part of "n" is discarded? > > Yes, there should be pare

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:30:32PM -0700, Ben Escoto wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:43:35 -0400 > "Jason M. Felice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > dirvish looks interesting. One of the requirements that I now realize I > > didn't write into the proposal was the ability to store only a single > >

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:57:37PM -0400, Jason M. Felice wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 05:18:00PM +0100, Andy Henson wrote: > > I propose a new option: > > --comp-file= > > > > allowing: > > rsync -vvtPB --comp-file=$BASE remote.host:$NEW . > > > > Specifying this for each file would be murd

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:43:35PM -0400, Jason M. Felice wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:44:52AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > Try dirvish or one of the other backup systems already out > > there. > > dirvish looks interesting. One of the requirements that I now realize

Re: Adding support for versioned files in rsync

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:57:36AM -0400, Jason M. Felice wrote: > Hi! > > Below is a link to a proposal I'm writing for two clients of ours who want an > Internet-based backup solution. I propose eleven "objectives" in it, > most of which are modifications to rsync. I'd like to contribute > the

Re: Unable to rsync files of size 30 GB

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:34:00PM +0100, Andy Henson wrote: > Rsync maps files into memory, so it cannot handle files larger than the > program's address space. On 32 bit machines this is likely to be less > than 2GB. > > You don't say what processor you are running on? Can it map files of >

rsync on OpenVMS

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 12:38:40AM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > I am trying to restart getting rsync to run on OpenVMS, and find a way > around the fork() issue, posibly using POSIX threads. It occurs to me that i may have been overly encouraging in my last followup. Getting rsync to work us

Re: rsync.h always including syslog.h even when not used.

On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 12:38:40AM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > jw schultz wrote: > >On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 11:21:19PM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > > > >Won't work. LOG_DAEMON is defined in syslog.h. > > Didn't there use to be a HAVE_SYSLOG or USE_S

Re: rsync.h always including syslog.h even when not used.

On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 11:21:19PM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > Hello, > > rsync.h is always including the syslog.h file, even though it is only > used when the LOG_DAEMON macro is defined. > > Could someone change it to be as follows: > > #ifdef LOG_DAEMON > #include > #endif Won't work.

Re: Patch to revive tmpfiles

tion is only interesting to me because of the oddness i imagine must be happening when the tempfile disappears out from under rsync. I'm not sure if i wouldn't rather just have rsync bomb out at that point with a good error message such as "Tempfile for %d missing -- probable

Re: Patch to revive tmpfiles

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:22:04PM +0200, Hans Eric Sandström wrote: > This is a patch to fix one annoyance of having rsync processes race: > > I usually keep our servers synced with the following script, run by cron. > #!/bin/sh > lockfile -r 2 -l 1000 /tmp/synchome.lock || exit 1 > rsync -e ssh

Re: RSync hangs up on file transfer

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 08:37:27PM +0200, Andre Alexander Bell wrote: > On Monday 06 October 2003 20:48, jw schultz wrote: > > updated. The third is for there to be corruption such as > > defective hardware or the destination being on nfs. > > These harddisks are 6 month o

Re: RSync hangs up on file transfer

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 08:35:47PM +0200, Andre Alexander Bell wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thx, for your answer. > > On Monday 06 October 2003 20:40, jw schultz wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:56:47PM +0200, Andre Alexander Bell w

Re: 2.5.6: a number of minor issues

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:48:45AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 06:03:55AM -0400, der Mouse wrote: > > I just picked up rsync 2.5.6 and installed it. I haven't actually > > _used_ it for anything yet; this is entirely about a handful of minor > &

Re: Rsync for backups - possible major speedup when local files renamed.

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 11:44:01PM +0800, Will Smith wrote: > I use rsync regularly for backups of large trees, sometimes > over low bandwidth links, and I would like to suggest a potentially > major speedup under some circumstances, where files or > folders are moved or renamed. > > The principle

Re: rsync for transferring harddrive images

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:14:37PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have a project where I have to backup (copy /dev/hda on a server) and > recover (copy back) hardrives from the clients. I tried this with rsync > using: > > BACKUP: rsync /dev/hda [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/to/image >

Re: 2.5.6: a number of minor issues

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 06:03:55AM -0400, der Mouse wrote: > I just picked up rsync 2.5.6 and installed it. I haven't actually > _used_ it for anything yet; this is entirely about a handful of minor > issues I noticed while building it. You may care or you may not; for > simplicity of language (t

Re: Unsolicited change of group

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 07:57:07PM +1000, BlakJak wrote: > Using rsync to copy files on the localhost, the group is being preserved > even though I have not used the -g or -a options. > > My source files: > $ ls -l ~/working/source/path > -rwxr-xr-x1 blakjak blakjak 115 Oct 8 01:37 fo

Re: How to change permissions on a directory without meaning to... - include/exclude semantics

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:06:52PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:38:43AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > I'd say the paragraph needs an overhaul. > > See how you like the appended patch. Three small things. While you are updating it capitalise the fir

Re: How to change permissions on a directory without meaning to... - include/exclude semantics

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:04:42AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:45:13AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > Also, it is incorrect. The trailing slash means the contents of the > > directory (excluding .). > > Nope. The code specifically adds the '.

Re: Skipping Directory

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:58:58PM +0200, Michael Clivot wrote: > the rsync command is build by the PHP-Script > Here an example of a command with the "Skipping directory" failure: > rsync -az -e ssh /cygdrive/F/web/workstation/mediadb/europe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > The OS on both machines is Windo

Re: How to change permissions on a directory without meaning to... - include/exclude semantics

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:21:16AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:55:45AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > This should probably be attached to this paragraph early in the USAGE > > section: > > I've incorporated some suggested tweaks into the te

Re: How to change permissions on a directory without meaning to... - include/exclude semantics

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:25:36AM +0100, Tim Small wrote: > jw schultz wrote: > > Your attempt to exclude the root directory, if successful, > > would have prevented the whole transfer on the parent > > directory path walking principle. So that is not the way to >

Re: Possible security hole

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 12:59:31AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 02:56, Wayne Davison wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 11:38:48PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > > for (i=0; i < (int) s->count;i++) { > > > > Yeah, that's pretty bad. Attached is a patch that should fix th

Re: RSync hangs up on file transfer

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:20:55PM +0200, Andre Alexander Bell wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello! > > It is about a month ago that I came up here with my problem that rsync stops > processing from time to time. Meanwhile I investigated some more time on this > pro

Re: RSync hangs up on file transfer

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:56:47PM +0200, Andre Alexander Bell wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello! > > I'm using RSync to mirror from a server (gandalf) to a backupserver (dwalin). > RSync does just fit my needs for what I want it to do and I would like to > thank

Re: How to change permissions on a directory without meaning to... - include/exclude semantics

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:41:45PM +0100, Tim Small wrote: [redacted] > Hi, > > Think I've found either a documentation bug, in rsync (or possibly a > code bug), with the include/exclude feature. This occurs on (at least) > 2.5.5 and 2.5.6 > > First I created a file list of files that I wanted

Re: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:42:00AM -0400, jonathan sabo wrote: > List, > > I am having trouble with a previously working rsync server. > > Version: > > ># rsync --version > >rsync version 2.5.4 protocol version 26 > >Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others > >

Re: Possible security hole

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:56:16PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 11:38:48PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > for (i=0; i < (int) s->count;i++) { > > Yeah, that's pretty bad. Attached is a patch that should fix this and a > number of other related problems where the code

Re: Possible security hole

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 11:38:48PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > Maybe security related mails should be sent elsewhere? I didn't notice > any so here it goes: > > sender.c:receive_sums() > > s->count = read_int(f); > .. > s->sums = (struct sum_buf *)malloc(sizeof(s->sums[0])*s->count

Re: Cygwin/rsync Hang Problem Testing Results

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:38:20AM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paul Thompson wrote: > > | 2.4.5 success success 2.4.6 failure failure > > Funny this is: 2.4.6 is exactly the release where many cygwin-related > patches landed in

Re: Cygwin/rsync/ssh automation problems

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:50:45AM -0500, Paul Thompson wrote: > Olivier Kaloudoff wrote: > > >On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Josh Endries wrote: > > > > > >To synchronise files between Windows and unix, you might > >take a look at Unison: > > > >http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ > > > >Unison is

Re: Backing up laptops on network

t; Al > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of jw schultz > Sent: vendredi 3 octobre 2003 17:02 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Backing up laptops on network > > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:52:22PM

Re: Backing up laptops on network

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:52:22PM +0100, Reuben Pearse wrote: > Hi all, > > We are currently looking at a solution for backing up files on laptops > to a server in a small office (10 users). > > I was looking at rsync as a solution. Here is my suggested solution: > > Install rsync on network se

Re: Backing up laptops on network

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:24:59AM -0400, Ron DuFresne wrote: > Reuben Pearse wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >We are currently looking at a solution for backing up files on laptops > >to a server in a small office (10 users). > > > >I was looking at rsync as a solution. Here is my suggested solution: >

Re: rsync behind a NAT

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:12:22PM +0200, Olivier Kaloudoff wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to synchronise a whole directory > tree using rsync, from a server named "dev", to the > three servers named "w1, w2, w3", hidden behind the > server named "prod". > > So I issued the following

Re: --password-file=

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:34:43PM -0500, Clint Boggio wrote: > I am moving from an anonymous rsync setup to a password protected rsync > setup. I have my module involved in the test configured to auth only for > one user. The secrets file is working just fine for I have tested it. > Before I decid

Re: password problem with rsync

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 05:17:07AM +, Payal Rathod wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:43:24PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > Thanks a lot for the excellent mail. Forgive for an additional copy to > you since this might go OT any moment. > > > If all you care about is copying:

Re: password problem with rsync

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 05:12:18AM +, Payal Rathod wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:53:37PM -0400, Ron DuFresne wrote: > > You then have two choices, well, perhaps one; > > > > rsh and it's issues to combat > > > > or running in deamon mode as root and connecting to the deamon as root. > >

Re: lock out of machine

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:09:04PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a better forum] > > On 30 Sep 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Question- > > I have a solaris 9 sunray server... I install rsync-2.5.6 on > > the solaris an older version is on the linux (crossover > > server

Re: PATCH: option to ignore case in filenames

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:26:40PM -0400, John R. LoVerso wrote: > > This is a mount option issue. > > Don't mount with posix enabled. > > Did you try that? > > FWIW, I'm not using the "posix" option to the vfat fs. It would have > solved my problem, but it doesn't work consisitently. I did try

Re: PATCH: option to ignore case in filenames

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:36:54PM -0400, John R. LoVerso wrote: > I have two DOS filesystems mounted on Linux as "vfat" which I want to rsync. > (They are on flash cards, so that they are also small). rsync gets tricked > because the filesystem treats names differing in only case as the same. > T

Re: password problem with rsync

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:23:58PM +, Payal Rathod wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:15:42PM -0400, Ron DuFresne wrote: > > don't invlove the network levels, this is merely a filesystem to > > filesystem 'copy', with permission ,ownership retention. the ley is to > > do this uder an accoun

Re: problem with batch mode:

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:20:55PM +0200, Rainer Stengele wrote: > Can anybody give me a hint? Why is "delta-transmission disabled for local > transfer"? Because for local syncs it only slows things down. Use --no-whole-file to enable it. -- __

Re: rsync won't recurse - irix

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 02:20:20PM -0400, Jerry Adlersfluegel (CBIZ Tech) wrote: > I'm using the binary for irix provided on the site: > > rsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26 > Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others > > Capabilities: 64-bit files, soc

Re: Option --link-dest creates unexplained subdirectory

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 05:43:03PM +0200, Alan Louis Scheinine wrote: > > The following backup script works fine for test cases but for > doing a backup of 750 MB, the directory daily.1 has > a subdirectory daily.0, that is, there is > daily.1/daily.0 > daily.2/daily.1 > daily.3/daily.2 > The dire

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