Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-17 Thread John Van Essen
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may be that there will be files from different systems that are identical - think system binaries, fonts etc. If these are in /var/local/backups/{host1,host2} etc, and I've run a script to identify these dupes and eliminate them using

Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-14 Thread John
Wayne Davison wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:21:41AM +0800, John wrote: flist.c: In function `send_file_entry': flist.c:349: `lastdir_len' undeclared (first use in this function) It patched the wrong function, which is really hard to understand because the line numbers in the patch are

Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-10 Thread John
Wayne Davison wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:42:08PM +0800, John wrote: I will install 2.6.2 when the backup run has completed, but I want the current run to complete first. Since you're using multiple sources with --delete, make sure the 2.6.2 code you compiled has been patched with

Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-09 Thread John
I got the axe out and sharpened it, and leaned it against the garden shed, and the plant is growning. Canberrans here may recall the advice of David Young who had a gardening talkback program on ABC radio in the early 80s. 2.6.2 has fixes for unnecessary transfers. I added --timeout=3600,

Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:42:08PM +0800, John wrote: I will install 2.6.2 when the backup run has completed, but I want the current run to complete first. Since you're using multiple sources with --delete, make sure the 2.6.2 code you compiled has been patched with the simple fix attached to

Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-09 Thread John Taylor
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:42:08PM +0800, John wrote: OpenVPN tunnels using UDP, and can survive outages that cause rsync/ssh to hang. It also does adaptive compression - it turns compression on/off from time to time based on current traffic. If you are strictly using the VPN for rsync,

Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-09 Thread John
Wayne Davison wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:42:08PM +0800, John wrote: I will install 2.6.2 when the backup run has completed, but I want the current run to complete first. Since you're using multiple sources with --delete, make sure the 2.6.2 code you compiled has been patched with

Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:21:41AM +0800, John wrote: flist.c: In function `send_file_entry': flist.c:349: `lastdir_len' undeclared (first use in this function) It patched the wrong function, which is really hard to understand because the line numbers in the patch are right for the 2.6.2

Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-07 Thread John
I am trying to use rsync to backup from a site we will call office and another we will call home. Both sites have DSL accounts provided by Arachnet. At present the files being backed up don't all all to be backed up, but OTOH we wish to backup lots more files that aren't being backed up now.

Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-07 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:37:32AM +0800, John wrote: 1. ADSL connexion at one end ot the other dropping for a while. rsync doesn't notice and mostly hangs. I have seen rsync at home still running but with no relevant files open. There are two aspects of this: (1) Your remote shell should

Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-07 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 07:40:22PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: So, I'll assume (until shown otherwise) that this is a case of the remote shell still hanging around. There's one other possibility I thought of. You mentioned that your kernel has gone around killing processes when memory is low.

Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-07 Thread John
Hmm I subscribed to the list before I sent this. I've not seen either the email confirmation request or my mail to the list. Wayne Davison wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:37:32AM +0800, John wrote: 1. ADSL connexion at one end ot the other dropping for a while. rsync doesn't notice and

Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-07 Thread John
Wayne Davison wrote: On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 07:40:22PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: So, I'll assume (until shown otherwise) that this is a case of the remote shell still hanging around. There's one other possibility I thought of. You mentioned that your kernel has gone around killing

Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-07 Thread John Van Essen
(I see there's already been an exchange between you and Wayne, but I'll still send this reply that I composed to your original email.) On Tue, 08 Jun 2004, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We maintain the contents of latest thus: + rsync --recursive --links --hard-links --perms --owner --group

Re: Reliability and robustness problems

2004-06-07 Thread John
John Van Essen wrote: (I see there's already been an exchange between you and Wayne, but I'll still send this reply that I composed to your original email.) I'm glad you did! On Tue, 08 Jun 2004, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We maintain the contents of latest thus: + rsync --recursive