Tom Riley wrote:
However, the curiosity comes in with my source data taking up 86gigs of
data on a 100g partition, and as the copy progresses the destination
drive is reporting 240 gigs of usage.
So as far as I can tell, rsync is working and the data integrity seems
good, it's simply taking
On 3/8/07, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This may indeed be working correctly, but I noticed that no matter how
many -v I use (I tried up to 4) I could not get a confirmation that
local-0 was found to agree with the copy on the target, even though I
use --checksum.
I do see several
$SOURCE $TARGET'
My question is this: do I need to continue to use --size-only, or has
the first rsync backup run put time stamps on all files?
Thanks,
Bill Tallman
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again. So I used:
'rsync -r -t -v --size-only $SOURCE $TARGET'
My question is this: do I need to continue to use --size-only, or has
the first rsync backup run put time stamps on all files?
The first rsync run put the time stamps on because you used -t
(--times). You no longer need
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:18:39PM -0700, William D. Tallman wrote:
My question is this: do I need to continue to use --size-only, or has
the first rsync backup run put time stamps on all files?
You can drop the --size-only option after that first use with the -t
option, because rsync
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:02:18PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:18:39PM -0700, William D. Tallman wrote:
My question is this: do I need to continue to use --size-only, or has
the first rsync backup run put time stamps on all files?
You can drop the --size-only
Hi. I've been searching around for answers on this one and experimenting a
fair amount, but I seem to be stuck. I hope this is an appropriate place
for my question and if not, apologies.
I am running Samba v3 on a Linksys NSLU2 (Network Storage Link -- a NAS).
(It runs GNU/Linux.)
I have
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:29:45PM -0800, William D. Tallman wrote:
And I got it that I could remove -t and --size-only from subsequent
backup runs.
No, you don't want to eliminate -t, as preserving timestamps is the only
way rsync has to quickly decide if a file is changed or not (if you had
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 03:16:13PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:29:45PM -0800, William D. Tallman wrote:
And I got it that I could remove -t and --size-only from subsequent
backup runs.
No, you don't want to eliminate -t, as preserving timestamps is the only
way
I'm just starting to learn about rsync. My use is to backup one hard
drive to another (newer) hard drive. I've read through the man file,
the rsync site, several googled posts, and have read this forum for a
few days, and I still have some questions.
The initial copy over was simply 'cp $SOURCE
I have a directory dumps on my laptop containing several dumps of
various levels.
local-0-2007-03-03.gz
local-4-2007-02-12.gz
local-4-2007-02-19.gz
local-4-2007-02-26.gz
local-4-2007-03-05.gz
local-5-2007-03-04.gz
local-5-2007-03-06.gz
local-5-2007-03-07.gz
local-5-2007-03-08.gz
Naturally the
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:06:48PM -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote:
While we're on the topic: I was dismayed to discover a while ago that
rsync doesn't allow different kinds of basis dirs in the same command
(e.g., --compare-dest=foo --link-dest=bar).
I'm trying to imagine how that would be useful
On 2/16/07, Wayne Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to imagine how that would be useful because one of the things
that the options do is to control how the destination hierarchy is
populated, and there's only one destination hierarchy. About the only
useful combination I can come up
Sorry for being so persistent
Even with non-incremental file list generation (protocol=29) I get a
file list generation time of 80 sec but rsync still needs 12 min to
finish with (almost) no data to transfer. What is it doing the other
10 min?
... Matt
Paul Slootman wrote:
On Wed 07
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:06:31PM -0800, Matt wrote:
Anyway, I am wondering why it is taking full 12 minutes to complete the
rsync.
There are several things to check. Try timing an rsync run with -n to
see how quickly it runs without doing any data transfer. Try doing an
rsync of the
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:57:22PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
If there are a large number of files to transfer, the win won't
really be that much, as the generator will be waiting around for new
file-list info a lot, and that data channel will be clogged up with
file data.
In this context
During more testing along your suggestions I realized that I had
included the rotation of my backup trees in my rsync timing. Turns out
the rm -r command to delete the oldest back tree was taking the most
time (9 out of 12-14 min). This begs the question if one cannot
recycle the oldest
On Wed 07 Feb 2007, Matt wrote:
Using --whole-file doesn't help, see below. BTW, rsync needs about the
same time even if no file has changes at all. It must be the
comparison of the file metadata. A rate 325 files/sec seems somewhat low
to me but maybe its mostly the time to read all
On Mon 05 Feb 2007, Matt wrote:
Anyway, I am wondering why it is taking full 12 minutes to complete the
rsync. The connection link is a GigE LAN. Thus most time is spent
comparing the file lists at sender and receiver. However, a comparison
rate of 217293 files / 670 sec = 325 files/sec
Hi,
first a short success report: rsync 3.0.0 works as far as I can tell
flawless for me.
My performance question: Below are of some recent backup stats one,
using the old protocol (29), the other the latest cvs (30). As you see,
the file creation time has dropped significantly (0.01 sec vs
On 1/30/07, Wayne Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're right. That means that the multi-option version of compare-dest
is not working as it should. I need to change the code so that rsync
creates a new version anytime the most recent version of the file
differs from the sender's version
On Mon 29 Jan 2007, Matt McCutchen wrote:
On 1/29/07, Wayne Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you
want to store the new, changed files, use one or more --compare-dest
options (one pointing at an old full backup, and an extra option for any
intervening incrementals).
This approach won't
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:56:16PM -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote:
This approach won't work because rsync will skip a file if it is in
the same state now as in any of the backups, not just the most recent
one. Thus, if I change a file and change it back, the fact that I
changed it back would not
I current do some rsync backups with a command like so every day
rsync -az -e ssh --stats --delete --exclude stuff / [EMAIL
PROTECTED]:/home/user/
What I want to do is have some incremental backups in there in
subdirectories. So, for example, something like this on the remote
server
On Mon 29 Jan 2007, Blake Carver wrote:
I current do some rsync backups with a command like so every day
rsync -az -e ssh --stats --delete --exclude stuff /
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/
What I want to do is have some incremental backups in there in
subdirectories. So, for example,
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:34:39AM -0500, Blake Carver wrote:
I thought the --backup --backup-dir Switches were used to store just
the files that had changed in seperate directories, am I wrong on
that?
It stores the old files that are being updated or deleted, moving (or
copying) them before
Hello,
I'm using cwrsync (with rsync 2.6.9) via ssh to back up stuff from
various client machines to a server. Occasionally I would like to
delete a particular file or folder from the server that still exists on
the client (i.e., I'm no longer backing it up and I don't want it
sitting on the
On 11/27/06, Ben Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using cwrsync (with rsync 2.6.9) via ssh
Careful: when we say rsync via ssh, we usually mean that the client
rsync invokes a second instance of rsync on the server as the ssh
remote command. Your setup counts as talking directly to an
Hello,
thanks for the input: I changed my commands acc. your hints and it
works. Before I go on I have another question. Is it possible with these
both commands and the configured module to access it from two clients so
that every client can first update the contents of /Applications/Scripts
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:12:05PM +0200, Michael Homscheidt wrote:
Is it possible with these both commands and the configured module to
access it from two clients so that every client can first update the
contents of /Applications/Scripts (the module) with the newest files
(if available) and
Hello,
I'm new to rsync and have a basic question for rsync: I want to
synchronize some data between two clients. Therefore I have
configured a module on a server. For test purposes I'm trying to
sent data to the module and get the data back to the same client. The
problem
On 10/20/06, Michael Homscheidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- If I get the data back from the module the directory /Applications/
Scripts/Applications/Scripts is created.
[...] (server to client) rsync --relative --recursive --archive --
compress --stats --perms --times $MODULE $DIRECTORY
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 09:38:03PM -0600, Rob Bosch wrote:
the ARG values include all the options but the /usr/bin value. I'd like to
be able to track the remote directory being used. Is this possible?
Nope. The remote rsync doesn't get told about local information that it
doesn't require
On Tue 12 Sep 2006, Heise, Robert wrote:
Here is the verbose output while using --dry-run
Processing
ral-bea-01-l:/usr/bin/rsync--archive--compress--delete--dry-run
--group--perms--stats--times--rsh=/usr/bin/ssh -o
StrictHostKeyChecking=no--rsync-path=/usr/bin/rsync--verbose--excl
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:41:12AM -0400, Heise, Robert wrote:
Here is the verbose output while using --dry-run
I don't see anywhere in that (extraordinarily hard to read) output where
it wanted to copy any excluded files.
..wayne..
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Im running into an issue with exclude options not working correctly. Here are the details, if anybody can see what Im doing incorrectly, please let me know.. Thanks
rsync version 2.5.7 protocol version 26
Command:
/usr/bin/rsync--archive--compress--delete
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:13:03AM -0400, Heise, Robert wrote:
A couple of .sh scripts are still being copied out
Please cite the verbose output from rsync for those files (use -n if you
want to avoid any copying). The verbose output is the easiest way to
see the names that the exclude patterns
I'm just not entirely clear from the man page.. does the timeout start
counting from the last communication, or does it start counting from the
beginning of the transmission?
also, if the server is set to timeout at, say, 300s, and it's busy
moving stuff around but not talking to the client,
On 7/9/06, Eric Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm just not entirely clear from the man page.. does the timeout start
counting from the last communication, or does it start counting from the
beginning of the transmission?
I believe it counts from the last communication.
also, if the server
Hi,
I have a problem with rsync ,
where the process stops with the message
rsync : failed to connect to
192.168.1.200: Connection refused (111)
rsync error : error in
socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(94)
This
isclient's log
rsync error: received SIGUSR1
OR SIGINT (CODE
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:35:19PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am using rsync 2.6.6 on windows xp professional and cygwin (latest)
to sync files between the hard-drives and the portable drive. There
is no other rsync daemon that I am contacting.
As far as I know, cygwin hasn't yet
Hello,
I am sure the list has seem many of these questions, but I did not find one
relating to my problem.
I am using rsync 2.6.6 on windows xp professional and cygwin (latest) to sync
files between the hard-drives and the portable drive. There is no other rsync
daemon that I am contacting.
Hi,
We use rsync utility for one of our applications which runs
on the AIX platform; currently syncs content between two AIX servers. We now
need to move this application to another environment which will need to sync
content between linux and iseries operating system. Are there any
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 09:59:52PM -0500, Doug Lochart wrote:
Is there a utility out there that will handle the server/client log files
even if you chaneg the format around?
You just need to customize the matching code in the rsyncstats script.
It ships with support for two log formats (both
I saw in the rsync.d documentation that there is a perl script to parse the default log format for tranferred files.Is there a utility out there that will handle the server/client log files even if you chaneg the format around?
thanksDoug-- What profits a man if he gains the whole world yet loses
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De : BOYE Johan
Envoyé : lundi 6 mars 2006 08:28
À : 'Jan-Benedict Glaw'
Objet : RE: Question about rsync and BIG mirror
I'm preparing a plan for a production mode in my company: we need to
mirror around 100GB of data trough a special VPN internet line
100gb of 4-40MB files sounds like my home PC full of digital photos I've
taken. It backs up to a linux PC right beside it with rsync. I don't
really call it that big a project for rsync. Big things for rsync are
millions of files. At 100mbps, it takes a few seconds to build the list.
I use the
jp wrote:
100gb of 4-40MB files sounds like my home PC full of digital photos I've
taken. It backs up to a linux PC right beside it with rsync. I don't
really call it that big a project for rsync. Big things for rsync are
millions of files. At 100mbps, it takes a few seconds to build the
Jamie Lokier wrote:
Hmm. My home directory, on my laptop (a mere 60GB disk), does contain
millions of files, and it takes about 20 minutes to build the list on
a good day. 100Mbps network, but it's I/O bound not network bound.
It looks a lot like the number of files is more significant than
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:18:45PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
In fact, I know of at least one place where they don't use rsync because
they don't have enough RAM+SWAP to hold the list of files in memory.
As far as future directions for rsync, I think this is the major place
where rsync
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Hmm. My home directory, on my laptop (a mere 60GB disk), does contain
millions of files, and it takes about 20 minutes to build the list on
a good day. 100Mbps network, but it's I/O bound not network bound.
It looks a lot like the number of files is more significant
Wayne Davison wrote:
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:18:45PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
In fact, I know of at least one place where they don't use rsync because
they don't have enough RAM+SWAP to hold the list of files in memory.
As far as future directions for rsync, I think this is the
Jamie Lokier wrote:
While you're there, one little trick I've found that speeds up
scanning large directory hierarchies is to stat() or open() entries in
inode-number order. For some filesystems it makes no difference, but
for others it reduces the average disk seek time as on many common
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
While you're there, one little trick I've found that speeds up
scanning large directory hierarchies is to stat() or open() entries in
inode-number order. For some filesystems it makes no difference, but
for others it reduces the average disk seek time as on many common
Object: Re: Question about rsync and BIG mirror
Thanks for all your answers and advices. My problem seems on the side of
the 2MB line one time the whole 190GB data are synchronised. I will keep
in touch and give some feedbacks.
Thanks for all
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On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 07:45:26PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So these files will surely not removed, because they
are not sent.
Ouch, that is not very nice of rsync, is it? The only simple suggestion
I can think of is to use -I so that rsync will update even identical
files (it will do
First remove-send-files is improved in the actual version
and really works better for me, removing is now more in time.
In my case I have a buggy wireless cconnection and rsyncing over night
in a loop, until rsync return 0, because often the pipe connection gets
broken.
After a complete
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
So: each night, from 0:00am to maximum 7:00am, the server will have to
check the 100Go of files and see what files have been modified, then,
upload them to the clients. Each file is around 4MB to 40MB in average.
Are the clients what you call the mirror?
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It was, but nobody answered yet.
I'm preparing a plan for a production mode in my company: we need to
mirror around 100GB of data trough a special
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Hello,
I'm quite a n00b on rsync stuff but I went
Hello,
I'm quite a n00b on rsync stuff but I went to the website, read
FAQ/how-to, Google and more, I setup my own rsync server and clients:
everything works fine :-D
I'm preparing a plan for a production mode in my company: we need to
mirror around 100GB of data trough a special VPN
// I wonder if this message has been posted, so I sent it again //
Hello,
I'm quite a n00b on rsync stuff but I went to the website, read
FAQ/how-to, Google and more, I setup my own rsync server and clients:
everything works fine :-D
I'm preparing a plan for a production mode in my company:
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:04:42AM -, sdr0303 wrote:
...inside of the local /client/temp directory I have serveral zip
files but for some reason it skips them? The rsync.log, I
get, skipping server excluded file... and the list of the zip
files?
Are the zip files named with upper-case
I have an rsync daemon running on a Windows box. It has a module
called temp that allows users to write to a specific directory. My
rsync.conf looks like:
use chroot = false
strict modes = false
max connections = 3
hosts allow = 192.168.1.7
lock file = rsyncd.lock
log file = rsyncd.log
pid file
I have an rsync daemon running on a Windows box. It has a module
called temp that allows users to write to a specific directory. My
rsync.conf looks like:
use chroot = false
strict modes = false
max connections = 3
hosts allow = 192.168.1.7
lock file = rsyncd.lock
log file = rsyncd.log
pid file
Hi Brad,
Yes, I tried, the problem, as Wayne told, comes with :, that notation
conflicts with the sintax's hostname ...
Thus, I think that, the only way to use rsync with windows, implies
Cygwin.
Thank u!
Judith
pd: Thanks Wayne!!
Brad Rigden wrote:
Hi Judith,
have you tried replacing your
Hi everyone!
Does anyone use, rsync, under windows, without Cygwin?
When I type something like this:
rsync -auvlHI --delete --partial --modify-window=2 --log-format= %t %o %l %f --stats -vv -e ssh -o
ForwardX11=no -vv -i e:/program/sinc/.ssh/sinc_rsa -l USER e:/program SERVER:dir_dest
rsync
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:00:20PM +0200, Judith Flo wrote:
Seems that rsync doesn't understand the string e:, because when I
type /cygdrive/e/program
I can send the data without any problem...
Yes, that's correct -- rsync does not know anything about drive letters,
so you cannot use them
Hello,
I am synchronizingone
~15GBfile over the network. This file from the previous day exists on the
destination and I synchronized today's file over. This is the
output.
Number of files: 1Number of files transferred: 1Total file size:
15919685632 bytesTotal transferred file size:
Hello,
I am synchronizingone
~15GBfile over the network. This file from the previous day exists on the
destination and I synchronized today's file over. This is the
output.
Number of files: 1Number of files transferred: 1Total file size:
15919685632 bytesTotal transferred file size:
Hello,
I am synchronizingone
~15GBfile over the network. This file from the previous day exists on the
destination and I synchronized today's file over. This is the
output.
Number of files: 1Number of files transferred: 1Total file size:
15919685632 bytesTotal transferred file size:
Sameer Kamat wrote:
Hello,
I am synchronizing one ~15GB file over the network. This file from
the previous day exists on the destination and I synchronized today's
file over. This is the output.
Number of files: 1
Number of files transferred: 1
Total file size: 15919685632 bytes
Hi,
Thanks for your answer.
- Do you know if there is a librsync mailing list ? So I will apply my
question there
- Have you already use this library ?
For my part I used it, and to generate the new synchronized file, I had to copy
(fread) all the delta file into an input memory buffer (input
Mario Tambos wrote:
the summatory of the file's transferred bytes is 48542663. it doesn't
match the received bytes (about 8mb less)
That's because the summary total includes data that was sent outside of
the file transfers, such as the data for the file list (which is
probably the majority
Hello everybody,
About librsync, does anyone know how to patch the
delta without creating a new file ?
I used the librsync and it always generates a new
file, which is embarrassing if the file is over 1Gb.
I tried to store the new file in RAM, but it
saturates the machine.
Is there
hi, i was reading a rsync log file, and i discovered that the summatory of each file transfer(in bytes) doesn't match the total transfer for the operation.
for instance:
2005/09/28 22:02:06 [1072] rsync to NOC from nocbox (63.110.176.221)2005/09/28 22:02:07 [1072]
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:48:39PM -0500, Max Kipness wrote:
This works fine, however when trying to use cp -al to make incremental
copies, each copy always ends up being 53Gb in size.
How are you measuring that? If you use du on individual directory
hierarchies, it will always report the full
I use Rsync to backup 53Gb worth of nsf files from a domino wintel based
server, to a linux server. This works fine, however when trying to use cp
al to make incremental copies, each copy always ends up being 53Gb in size.
Im not sure if this is because the files are in use by the domino server
megs in size or
larger), and am finding that just the operation of the checksumming one such
file on the sender is taking tens of minutes.
The systems in question have processors on the order of a pentium 166, and
the tests that I did the other day syncing a single ~500meg file was between
15 and 20
On Thu, 2005-08-18 04:45:21 -0500, Evan Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there any way to disable the checksum block search in rsync, or to
somehow optimize it for systems that are processor-bound in addition to
being network bound?
By design, rsync trades CPU power for bandwidth.
Option
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
By design, rsync trades CPU power for bandwidth.
True. But just because that is it's main focus doesn't mean we can't also
provide a facility for hinting the types of files being transferred to
lessen the impact of that tradeoff for systems that
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:45:21AM -0500, Evan Harris wrote:
Is there any way to disable the checksum block search in rsync, or to
somehow optimize it for systems that are processor-bound in addition
to being network bound?
The --whole-file option (-W) disables the rsync algorithm entirely,
in the full-file checksum that verifies that the file
was sent correctly.
Great! Thanks. Will that be going into the upcoming 2.6.7 version?
One question: does it also do a rudimentary check to make sure that the last
block that is still present still matches on the sender and receiver, so it
can
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:48:08PM -0500, Evan Harris wrote:
Will that be going into the upcoming 2.6.7 version?
Yes.
One question: does it also do a rudimentary check to make sure that
the last block that is still present still matches on the sender and
receiver, so it can catch files
hi!
I try to mirror CPAN with:
rsync -r --progress --delete-after --links --stats
rsync://cpan.inode.at/CPAN/ /home/share/developer/CPAN
output:
Number of files: 177720
Number of files transferred: 55815
Total file size: 2666283775 bytes
Total transferred file size: 2048219168 bytes
Literal
hi!
1) which one is the net-value of the network transferred bytes
That would be Total bytes written (though it's Total bytes sent in a
modern rsync -- you may want to look into upgrading).
thanks. i'm using gentoo rsync 2.6.0-r5 (security patched). gentoo relies
on rsync a lot, an upgrade
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question is this: unless I chmod 777 on the target directory of the
remote host, rsync fails. I would prefer to have my perms set to 775,
with owners set to root:wheel, if possible. Currently, the ssh user I am
authenticating against is a member of the wheel group, so why am I
having this permissions
/cygdrive/c/test/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]::test
Aside from the irritating warning that not all data may have copied
over - not sure why it woould give me this), my test files seem to
copy over just fine.
My question is this: unless I chmod 777 on the target directory of the
remote host, rsync fails. I
\etc\secret --progress --stats
/cygdrive/c/test/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]::test
Aside from the irritating warning that not all data may have copied
over - not sure why it woould give me this), my test files seem to
copy over just fine.
My question is this: unless I chmod 777 on the target directory
Title: Message
Hi there - various
web pages indicated that the emails on the To lines could be used for general
questions
so what the heck ...
I'm having a problem getting a specific rsync option to work..
I am trying to copy
a list of files via rsync - the man pages indicate the
Title: Message
Hi -
Nevermind - I got this to work... still need the source dir -
thanks
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Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:07 AMTo:
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Hi there - various
web pages
Hi,
first of all excuse my bad english...
you didn't let me answer you ...
Well, i've been just working with rsync also, and want to use
the --files-from option and write the same command.
And my question is: wouldn't it be the correct behavior to
provide just one file with the --files-from
On Thu 30 Jun 2005, Judith Flo wrote:
Well, i've been just working with rsync also, and want to use
the --files-from option and write the same command.
And my question is: wouldn't it be the correct behavior to
provide just one file with the --files-from without writting a
source dir?
I
Hi,
I was just thinking about the possibility of a flag that
provide rsync with a method that doesn't require a
source dir in the line command.
I mean, a method where the user just has to write a
file which contents all directorys that wants to rsync
(directorys without the same root), something
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 02:22:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rsync works fine for me (the rules are reported below) except a point,
rsync create an empty folders structure that I don'want.
The only way to get rsync to not create directory hierarchies that don't
contain *.txt files is to
Hi all,
I'm trying to made a filtered backup of a windows PC.
My target is to create a recursive backup of only files reported in the
include/exclude files (i.e. only *.txt).
the rules (reported below) work well, but also create an empty folders
structure that I don'want.
Rsync works fine for me
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 02:52:05PM -0500, Larry Alkoff wrote:
How do I specify starting at the root directory? Is // correct?
Just use / on its own (since it is a trailing slash).
rsync -uacHv --exclude=lost+found mnt proc public sys tmp // /mnt/backup
You should read the section on the
I wish to rsync an entire Linux tree to another partition for backup
while excluding certain directories.
/home /var and /usr/local are mounted on separate partitions.
How do I specify starting at the root directory? Is // correct?
The USAGE section of man rsync and some googling suggest I
How does one get a list of ANY and ALL changes made
during a rsync session? Is it even possible?
I'm running rsync 2.6.3 on Fedora Core 3 and pulling
from an IRIX box running rsync 2.4.6.
I have a need to burn a CD with only the changes made
during the last rsync compared to the previous
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