Re: Question regarding exclude and invalid arg messages

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:42:57AM +0200, Morten Primdahl wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running rsync 2.5.6. I use it to backup a RH 7.3 file server > (samba+appletalk) to a FAT32 external HD. I get the following output: Huh? What in the world are you doing? That description sounds very strange. I

Re: Oops more testing was required....

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:55:13PM -0700, Ben Escoto wrote: > >>>>> "jws" == jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:49:22 -0700 > > jws> Long term, i think the bwlimit stuff needs a comple

Re: Oops more testing was required....

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:28:32PM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:09:59PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > > On 17 Jun 2003, Rogier Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Oops. Missed one line in the last patch > > > > Thankyou. That looks good. > > > > If we're go

Re: windows port

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 06:14:47PM -0400, lackluster lackluster wrote: > Looks like I'm going to have to port parts of or all of rsync to win2k. Has > this been done before? Any pointers? Why? That's a rhetorical question, you don't have to justify it to me. Given cygwin and other existing tools

Re: rsync does not sync files older than current year

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 06:12:59PM +0200, Thomas Fuerle wrote: > Dear sirs, > > I installed rsync from www.sunfreeware.com on a Solaris 8 box, which > seems to be 2.5.6, but it does not sync files correctly, which elder > than the current year. see the following > > # ls -al httpd.conf > -rw-r--r

Re: patch draft for extended attributes on linux

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:43:40AM -0400, Carson Gaspar wrote: > > > --On Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:16 AM -0700 jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Impossible with simple user/group permissions. > > > >Not impossible. I've done that sort of thing m

Re: --exclude-from works but "exclude from" in rsyncd.conf doesn't ?

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:51:03PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > I'm finally getting back to finishing up the testing for my patch of the > "exclude from" handling. The main thing I had on my list was checking > that --delete-excluded worked right, prompted by your comments: [snip] > Sounds good.

Re: plain source -> encrypted destination: rsync +gpg(--dest-filter patch)

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 05:45:55PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Lots of missing attribution maybe correctly reinserted] [please don't remove attributions of quoted content] > jw wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > > > The idea of this patch seem to me very useful. > > > I'm plan to use

Re: plain source -> encrypted destination: rsync + gpg(--dest-filter patch)

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:31:29PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If i recall correctly (i've not gone back to review that > > patch) that patch required whole-file transfers two avoid s/two/to/ #ick > > doing the operation twice per file. If the filter is > > deterministic and particularly

Re: authentication

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:03:46PM +0200, Julien VARLET wrote: > I have some problems while authentication. > > I created RSA keys and placed the public key on the remote host. > > With the user toto, I have the following command line : > rsync --arvz --rsh=ssh Nouveaudossier > [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: patch draft for extended attributes on linux

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:50:29AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > Martin Pool wrote: > > On 25 Jun 2003, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:34:38AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > >>> There is no mtime for xattrs, so they are transferred every time as > >>> part of th

Re: plain source -> encrypted destination: rsync + gpg

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:42:35PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > jw schultz wrote: > >Stop thinking client and server. Once the session is > >initiated there is little difference. Think instead sender > >and receiver. > > Good advise. Have to rephrase myself, then

Re: plain source -> encrypted destination: rsync + gpg

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:15:33PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >The filter run on the client ! > > Are you sure? I just re-read the patch and it still seems to be at the > server. > > Maybe I don't have the right idea of server/client in my head. Or I am > just m

Re: patch draft for extended attributes on linux

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:29:04AM -0400, Carson Gaspar wrote: > --On Wednesday, June 25, 2003 10:01 PM -0700 jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >I'd say that a security regimen that requires xattrs to > >tighten security is misguided. > > And you&

Re: patch draft for extended attributes on linux

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:51:19PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 25 Jun 2003, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:34:38AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > > > There is no mtime for xattrs, so they are transferred every time as > > > part of the file list. > > > > On

Re: Request for option for use on an unreliable connection

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:28:32PM -0500, David Lambert wrote: > I have been using rsync for the last year or so. Generally I am very > pleased with the performance and features, but I am forced to use a > rather unreliable link to one of my mirrors. Consequentially rsync often > bails out with

Re: rsync 2.5.6 for NCR MP-RAS

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 09:05:25AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi: > After compiling rsync2.5.6 using on SVR4 on Intel HW, Please help > # ./rsync --version > rsync: --version: unknown option > rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(994) > # ./rsync --help > Segmentation Fault

Re: patch draft for extended attributes on linux

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:50:59PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 24 Jun 2003, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't much care for sending the xattrs as part of the file list. > > Even the 4KB ext[23] _currently_ limit it to is huge. > > I'

Re: patch draft for extended attributes on linux

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:34:38AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > This draft patch adds support for transferring extended attributes > with a new --xattr option. It ought to work on Linux with XFS or > ext2/ext3 filesystems with the SGI/bestbits attribute system. > > It is partially working, but the

Re: Status of --files-from flag

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:04:25PM -0700, Gregory Brauer wrote: > > I noticed some discussion from a while back of adding a > --files-from flag to rsync that would allow an explicit > file list to be fed to rsync as to what files it should > check. What is the status of that discussion? The --fi

Re: delete exclusion

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:47:37PM -0700, Gregory Brauer wrote: > jw schultz wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:29:47PM -0700, Gregory Brauer wrote: > > > >>Is it possible to use rsync to mirror a group of files, deleteing > >>most files from the mirror wh

Re: delete exclusion

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:29:47PM -0700, Gregory Brauer wrote: > > Is it possible to use rsync to mirror a group of files, deleteing > most files from the mirror when they disappear from the source, > but not deleting a certain set of files that match a pattern if > they disappear from the source

Re: various "rsync: connection unexpectedly closed" errors on debian

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:03:43AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > jw schultz wrote: > > >On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:12:56PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >>>>When I sync'ed against other servers, my rsync client process always >

Re: doc for --compare-dest could be clearer

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:12:03PM -0400, Stephen Gildea wrote: > I have a suggestion for how to make the documentation of rsync's > "--compare-dest" option clearer. > > Maybe it would be clearer if I had some problem this option would solve, > but as it is, I couldn't figure it out from the manua

Re: [PATCH] Limit recursion depth

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 04:09:18PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:06:51PM +0200, Richard Mueller wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hy folks, > > > > everybody knows, that rsync eats up a lot of m

Re: [PATCH] Limit recursion depth

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:06:51PM +0200, Richard Mueller wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hy folks, > > everybody knows, that rsync eats up a lot of memory, when rsyncing > a lot of files. > > To avoid this i run rsync on different parts of the directory-tree > (e.g

Re: rsync - users directory

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 02:46:04PM +0200, Julien VARLET wrote: > I want to make backups of differents hosts on a NAS server. > I would like to user rsync. > > I want to know if it is possible to forbid backups on specific > directories. > In fact, I want host A to backup only on directory A on th

Re: connection problem

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 12:36:10AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:37:11AM +0200, Julien VARLET wrote: > > Hi, > > I have created a certificate, and i execute the following command > > rsync -arvz /root/.ssh/id_dsa.pub > > [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: connection problem

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:37:11AM +0200, Julien VARLET wrote: > Hi, > I have created a certificate, and i execute the following command > rsync -arvz /root/.ssh/id_dsa.pub > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/technique_ftp/.ssh/authorized_keys2 >

Re: rsync backup performance question

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 05:39:49PM +0200, Ron Arts wrote: > jw schultz wrote: > > > > [snip.. and thanks for all your comments] > > > > > >Rsync doesn't perform well on non-local filesystems. > > > > Really? Won't gigabit ethernet help for N

Re: various "rsync: connection unexpectedly closed" errors on debian

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:12:56PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>When I sync'ed against other servers, my rsync client process always > >>ran without --compress. Nevertheless, I've tried increasing > >>verbosity by 3, and this is what I get: > > > >Check the rsync log file. That is wher

Re: rsync backup performance question

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:20:34PM +0200, Ron Arts wrote: > jw schultz wrote: [snip] > Would it be feasible to have a separate process pre-creating > blocksums during the day in separate files (ending in ",rsync")? > Or, for example, while writing the changed file, the recei

Re: rsync backup performance question

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 01:59:11PM +0200, Ron Arts wrote: > jw schultz wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:42:46AM +0200, Ron Arts wrote: > > > >>Dear all, > >> > >>I am implementing a backup system, where thousands of postgreSQL > >>databas

Re: rsync backup performance question

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:42:46AM +0200, Ron Arts wrote: > Dear all, > > I am implementing a backup system, where thousands of postgreSQL > databases (max 1 Gb in size) on as much clients need to be backed > up nightly across ISDN lines. > > Because of the limited bandwidth, rsync is the prime c

Re: various "rsync: connection unexpectedly closed" errors on debian

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 03:20:31PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi jw schultz, > > >Please check your rsync log file (created by the daemon) for > >error messages. Also try without compression. > > > > > > When I sync'ed against other servers, my r

Re: various "rsync: connection unexpectedly closed" errors ondebian unstable rsync 2.5.6-0.1 package

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 09:21:11AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. I have a debian/unstable machine, which I use to rsync with other > machines, and on which I run an rsync daemon. rsync --version gives: > >rsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26 >Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andr

Re: Details of local copy

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:34:17PM -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote: > I see in the manpage that if rsync is used to copy files locally, "it > behaves like an improved copy command". I was hoping for more details on > what that means. It doesn't copy files that don't appear to have changed. I've use

Re: good snapshot solution

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:44:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I have installed rsync 2.5.5 as daemons on our 35 Netware servers (no 2.5.6 > is yet available for Netware) and do a daily sync from a Linux Rsync client > machine with 1.2 TB disk capacity. For the moment we do a dai

Re: Push

Before posting again, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:41:52AM -0400, Cormier, Michael wrote: > Server A: Has the files > Server B: Client who wants the files > > We want to have Server A connect to Server B and deposit the files there. > 1. Whi

Re: rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (Broken pipe)

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:38:54AM -0400, Andrew J. Schorr wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 06:35:50AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > > > You could try turning on transfer logging i suppose. If you > > haven't already done so you might want to use the "log fil

Re: Openssl and rsync

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:17:03PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 20 Feb 2003, Lee Wiltbank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have been working on a project to Openssl'ify Rsync. I am having > > problems when Rsync forks two processes to handle a sender and was > > wondering if anyone else would

Re: Smoother bandwidth limiting

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:02:37PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 15 May 2003, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can't really see that doing smaller writes will lead to packets being > > padded, unless you're doing really small writes (ref. the ATM 48-byte > > packets); the TCP and

Re: Oops more testing was required....

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:52:10PM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:26:48AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:09:59PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > > > On 17 Jun 2003, Rogier Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: Oops more testing was required....

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:28:32PM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:09:59PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > > On 17 Jun 2003, Rogier Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Oops. Missed one line in the last patch > > > > Thankyou. That looks good. > > > > If we're go

Re: Oops more testing was required....

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:09:59PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 17 Jun 2003, Rogier Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Oops. Missed one line in the last patch > > Thankyou. That looks good. > > If we're going to make this more accurate it might be worthwhile to > actually look at ho

Re: unexplained error occurs with options "o" or "g"

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:48:26PM -0600, Hursch, Robert wrote: > I am running rsync ver 2.5.5 on HP-UX 11.0. Whenever I run an rsync > specifying the "o" or "g" option to maintain owner or group info, I get > an error similar to the one below. The actual error code changes every > time, but it's

Re: Rsync lock-up

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 05:16:11PM -0400, Michael Kohne wrote: > I'm getting some odd behaviour from rsync - a lockup when doing local > copies. I tried to search the list archives, but I only came up with a > couple of hits from 2001 indicating folks thought this (or a similar > issue) was fixed.

Re: Rsync Performance In Windows

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:08:43PM -0500, Chris McKeever wrote: > Greger.. > I replaced the rsync.exe with the one from your link, it relieved the > windows CPU some (from 100% to 98% with flucuation to 100%). > > I also took the advice of using the -u switch. From the man: > > -u, --update

Re: rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (Broken pipe)

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:10:38AM -0500, Nathaniel Case wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 at 16:24:25 -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > > > > After looking at io.c, it seems like the problem (rather, the symptom) > > > for > > > this error message is a failed wri

Re: efficiency issue with rsync.....

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 05:46:41AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:49:09PM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > > > Hi rsync team, > > > > I thought that rsync would try to overlap computing and IO on both > > machines. > > > > I&#x

Re: efficiency issue with rsync.....

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:49:09PM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > Hi rsync team, > > I thought that rsync would try to overlap computing and IO on both > machines. > > I'm rsyncing a large tree (18G) and am keeping an eye on that. > Suddenly my side completely stopped. No IO visible, no CPU >

Re: Trouble rsyncing from Windows to Unix

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 08:49:20PM -0500, Trey Nolen wrote: > > You may have two points of trouble. First, you need to specify something to > get it to be recursive. I use -a, which covers most everything. I also use R > for relative paths. I think that you might also have trouble with the I d

Re: rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (Broken pipe)

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:53:04AM -0500, Nate Case wrote: > I'm experiencing some unexpected behavior with rsync v2.5.6. After > looking around it seems like several people have experienced similar > problems in the past, but those appear to be old bugs that are solved now. > Also doesn't appear

Re: crash on 2 gig file

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 12:10:03AM -0400, Brian K. White wrote: > Tomasz Ciolek wrote: > >>>On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:16:38PM -0400, Brian K. White wrote: > >>> > ... > 2.5.6 (protocol 26) from cvs on SCO Open Server 5.0.6 > both machines are the same version of OS and the same copy of

Re: selective dirs only

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:20:58PM +1000, Res wrote: > Hi All, > > Just to get the jist of things, trying to sort 5 diff rsyncs into the same > process:)if I want to copy only say 2 dirs and everything under them > when use include exclude, I have to define the dir first then the > dir/all ?

Re: rsync out of memory problem

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:39:06PM -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > Using an rsync (V2.5.6, Tru64 Unix 5.1A) command of the form: > > rsync -avz --delete /some/dir remhost:/some/other/dir > > where /some/dir has about 460,000 files in it, I get: > > building file list ... done > ERROR: out o

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:25:06PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 12 Jun 2003, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Leave the communications protocol to the communications > > layer. You don't save anything by coding reordering and > > retransm

Re: rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) atio.c(463)

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 05:59:43PM -0700, Vlad Sweet wrote: > My setup rsync --version 2.5.5 > on client and server > client is behind firewall/nat > > on client I run: > rsync -av --progress 110mb_file.mov [EMAIL PROTECTED]::dir1 > on server: > rsync --daemon > > it asks for password, starts to

Re: [librsync-devel] Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited6/2003 from 11/2000)

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:34:18AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > On 12 Jun 2003, Brad Hards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why run this _only_ over TCP? Obviously you don't want to re-invent TCP/IP > > error handling, but the protocol shouldn't rely on such a system. File > > transfer can potential

Re: rsync limit to file size/file count

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:28:47PM -0700, Eric Chen wrote: > I left the rsync running since last night, and it is still running > > receiving file list ... > expand file_list to 8000 bytes, did move > expand file_list to 16000 bytes, did move > expand file_list to 32000 bytes, did move > expand fi

Re: mkstemp permission denied

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:15:08PM -0400, Kevin Loechner wrote: > We are using rsync to push DNS records from one machine (running rsync > 2.5.6 as a client process on Debian woody) to a collocation server ( > running rsync 2.5.6 as a daemon on RedHat 7.3). To test this process we > are using a sc

Re: state of the rsync nation? (revisited 6/2003 from 11/2000)

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:13:48PM +1000, Brad Hards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:21 pm, Martin Pool wrote: > > I guess the reason why you're interested in doing it is so that you > > can browse public rsync mirrors from Konqueror/whatever? >

Re: rsync limit to file size/file count

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:46:25PM -0700, Eric Chen wrote: > Hi, > > What are the limits to file size and file count when doing a rsync transfer > using 2.5.6? File sizes somewhere between 300MB and 1GB 2.5.6 begins having noticeable issues. This is not a limit but merely pushing the capacity of

Re: rsync limit to filesize

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:12:55PM -0700, Eric Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to rsync about 460 GB of data from one server to another server > using rsync 2.5.6. I started the transfer at about 11:45am, and it has been > about 4 1/2 hrs since then and it is still building the file list. > > H

Re: Error with path names greater than 255 characters

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:25:54AM -0500, Edward King wrote: > Rsync 2.5.6 has a problem with pathnames or filenames longer than 255. > I redefined them in rsync.h, which generated errors on make pointing to > the previous definitions which look fine. Any ideas on where to check next? Those wer

Re: -u updating too liberally

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:58:20PM +0200, Jesse F. Hughes wrote: > Hey ho. > > I apologize for what must be a stupid question, but I couldn't find > any relevant posts in the archives. Not stupid, it's actually a pretty good question. > I want a daily backup of my home directory to another machi

Re: Red Hat rsync - 'sign' patch

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:56:34PM -0400, Hardy Merrill wrote: > I recently became the new rsync maintainer for Red Hat, > and I just completed a review of the current patches that > we (Red Hat) maintain for 'rsync'. After removing three > unnecessary patches (either already incorporated into > r

Re: need assistance with rsync keeping two live servers synced.

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:12:56AM -0400, Justin Kreger wrote: > I have a project that requires that I have two file servers physically > separated, both of which need to be able to written to and synced using > rsync. I'm not worried about rsync, I'm really worried about users > deleting files, b

Re: rsync and cygwin

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 05:36:03PM -0500, Trey Nolen wrote: > HmmThis backup server is handling backup jobs from about a dozen other > machines -- all but three are Linux. The other three are Windows 2000 > servers running Cygwin. Two of those are not working (giving the error). > The backup m

Re: rsync and cygwin

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:49:03AM -0500, Trey Nolen wrote: > I had sent a message to the list earlier this week detailing an error > message I am getting using rsync on Cygwin on Windows 2000. I have now > duplicated the problem on another windows 2000 server. I have a third server > on which the

Re: patch to rsync to add options for pre- and post-transfercommands

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 02:21:20PM -0600, David S. Ahern wrote: > In case others find this of value, I wrote a patch to rsync 2.5.6 to > give rsync in --daemon mode the ability to run a pre-transfer and > post-transfer command. These options handle our need to prepare a server > to receive files

Re: finding files on remote rsync servers

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 03:41:49PM +0800, Gavin Chester wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 15:31, Gavin Chester wrote: > > I've satisfied *some* of my confusion by trial and error (see below), > but need to be pointed in the right direction for a suitable tutorial or > such to solve the rest of my rsy

Re: [patch] exclude patterns documentation

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:59:59AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > I just reviewed the EXCLUDE PATTERNS section of the manpage > and found that the declarative portion never actually states > that only the part of the path that is relative destination > is compared. > > I'm not

Re: rsync behind NAT

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:00:11PM +0530, Anand wrote: > > Hi Tomasz, > > Thanks for the reply. I have a couple of more questions and would > appreciate some response: > > I can't ping to the remote server in the new setup. > > enif >> ping ldas-sw.ligo.caltech.edu > PING ldas-sw.ligo.c

Re: rsync behind NAT

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 11:43:20AM +0530, Anand wrote: > > Hi > > I use rsync as a client to copy a directory structure from a remote > server, once every month. > > Until a few weeks ago, we had direct access to the internet - and the way > it would work is that the guy maintaining the rsync se

Re: [rfc idle thought] exclude pattern left anchor

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:40:24PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > jw schultz wrote: > > A thought has been nagging me for a bit now so i'll run it > > up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes. > > > > There seems to be quite a bit of confusion regarding the use >

Re: rsync for migrating oracle datafiles

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:45:15PM +1200, Mark Edwards wrote: > Hi - a question for all ye rsync guru's out there... > > I have a need to migrate some fairly large Oracle > datafiles from a UFS filesystem to VxFS (VERITAS), however > I am not being allowed nearly enough outage time to > perform a

[patch] exclude patterns documentation

I just reviewed the EXCLUDE PATTERNS section of the manpage and found that the declarative portion never actually states that only the part of the path that is relative destination is compared. I'm not quite satisfied with my text on this so if anyone has a better way of stating it i'm open to sug

[rfc idle thought] exclude pattern left anchor

A thought has been nagging me for a bit now so i'll run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes. There seems to be quite a bit of confusion regarding the use of the leading slash as a top of tree anchor for exclude patterns. The manpage seems clear enough to me but somehow it doesn't seem to

Re: [rsync@b] Re: rsync and cygwin

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:50:18AM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: > Bert wrote: > > >While I don't know the cygwin architecture details, it looks like the > >/cygdrive functionality is a part of cygwin.dll and can be used > >without a parent bash shell. > > It is part of it's POSIX-layerness, inde

Re: rsync and cygwin

Since i don't use windows or cygwin i don't know what clue you are missing. I'll have to bow out on this one. -- J.W. SchultzPegasystems Technologies email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rsync and cygwin

u what patterns do match. > > Trey Nolen > > - Original Message - > From: "jw schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 6:13 PM > Subject: Re: rsync and cygwin > > > > Try using slash instea

Re: rsync and cygwin

Try using slash instead of backslash. On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:04:50PM -0500, Trey Nolen wrote: > Hi, I'm having some trouble using rsync on W2K under Cygwin. We are using it > to back up the W2K machine to a Linux machine. We are using the patched > version of rsync 2.5.6 that allows it to run

Re: rsync not overwriting files on destination

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:13:48PM -0700, Eric Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I am rsyncing from my source server A to a destination server B. > A/vol1 contains two files syslog.txt and syslog.bak > B/vol1 contains five files syslog.txt, syslog.bak, initlog.txt, > internal.txt, and internal.bak. > > I wan

Re: rsync not overwriting files on destination

Please start a new thread. On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:46:04PM -0700, Eric Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I am rsyncing from my source server A to a destination server B. > A/vol1 contains two files syslog.txt and syslog.bak > B/vol1 contains five files syslog.txt, syslog.bak, initlog.txt, > internal.txt,

Re: Local copy (root to mounted subdir) wanted - protocol error inio.c

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:35:48AM +0200, Viktor Horvath wrote: > Hello everybody, > > maybe someone has also had this issue: > > I try to copy the root partition "/" to a subdir "/Volumes/System". This is > not a cyclic recursion, because "/Volumes/System" is a mounted hard disk > partition. S

Re: Rsync: --link-dest when target and compare_dir both have file

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:32:04PM -0700, Michael Rubel wrote: > Hi J.W., > > Please pardon this intrusion on your private address; the rsync list seems > to be down (no messages since yesterday), so I'm forwarding this directly > to you. If you'd rather wait until the list restarts, that's fine

Re: why are these files being transfered

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:29:32AM -0700, Harry Putnam wrote: > jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hmm, -a == -rlptgoD could it be that the timestamp, owner, > > group or perms differ? > > No, thats not it (at least not all of it) I see the same behavior

Re: -p option in man and help [Was: Rsync / SSH / Cygwin ..permission problems..]

On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 11:51:25AM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: > jw schultz wrote: > > >On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 09:48:47AM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: > > > > > >>Actually it seems to me the opposite: it has perms also without -p... > >>maybe it is t

Re: why are these files being transfered

On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 01:04:40AM -0700, Harry Putnam wrote: > Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But when I run rsync it appear to want to transfer massive numbers of > > files. > > > > rsync -avvzC /root/cvs_buf.t/ /root/base.t 2>&1| tee /root/cvs_buf.test > > [...] > > sol/etc/

Re: Rsync / SSH / Cygwin .. permission problems..

On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 09:48:47AM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: > Actually it seems to me the opposite: it has perms also without -p... > maybe it is the default? Without -p new files get perms of source as modified by umask. --

Re: rsync over ssh

This has nothing to do with rsync. Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 01:10:56PM +0200, Oliver Krehan wrote: > Hi there, > > I use rsync over ssh to syncronise various directories between a windows > machine and a linux box. > Now I w

Re: Rsyncing Problem with - character!

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 11:31:59AM +0100, Tom Freeman wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for the quick response, I tried out what you said and this is > what I found. > > This works: > > /usr/bin/rsync --rsh=/usr/local/openssh/bin/ssh -avu --delete > "/export/home/tdf/Draft text - with Holley comments.doc" >

Re: Rsync / SSH / Cygwin .. permission problems..

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:02:02AM -0700, Oswell, Michael wrote: > I am attempting to use rsync to "mirror" data between several windows 2000 > and windows XP systems. I am a UNIX person by nature, so decided the > easiest way to go about doing this would be to use Cygwin with cron and ssh > runni

Re: Rsyncing Problem with - character!

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 11:06:51AM +0100, Tom Freeman wrote: > Dear Rsync Users, > Please can I have a bit of rsync advice? > > I am trying to rsync a file called. > > 'Draft text - with Holley comments.doc' from machine a to machine b. > > Unfortunately this isn't working because I think rsync

Re: [RFC] report options

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:32:12AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > Thanks for the reminder, jw -- I had meant to respond to this and forgot. It had surprised me that there was no response. This is just way to invasive for a unilateral decision. And frankly it will be too much work to code up these

Re: Error 23 reported each time I try to rsync

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:10:57AM -0400, Manuel Soto wrote: > Each time I try to rsync I get error 23 > > rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at > main.c(636) > > I see that files that has 700 permission are not synchronized by the > root I'm sure it is more than just 070

Re: [RFC] report options

Only two non-developers have responded to this. Barring a favourable response from other developers i'll shelve this proposal. On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:11:09PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > I have hinted in the past of wanting to go to a more > selective control of the output of rsyn

Re: rsync daemon caching/memory usage?

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 07:15:23PM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: > > I have two computers: a Linux box which I use as my workstation > (day-to-day use) and an OpenBSD box which I designate for server tasks: > gateway, firewall, etc. > > I use rsync to mirror many gigs worth of data from the Linux box

Re: Interactive Rsync Authentication Problem

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:27:44AM -0400, Andrew Klein wrote: > I have run across an interesting issue when running rsync from Solaris > to an rsync daemon on Linux. It works properly when I specify the > password on the command line: > > RSYNC_PASSWORD=the_Password rsync -r /tmp/test > [EMAIL

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