Advice for dated archives

2002-06-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Summary: Looking for a smooth way to allow rsyncing of mail and news to generate cumulative archives, but cut off a specified date, and begin a new archive that contains nothing of the previouis one. That might have sounded kind of confusing, but here's my setup: I rout

rZync 0.04 -- a faster next-generation protocol test app

2002-06-21 Thread Wayne Davison
FYI, I decided to release a new version of my next-generation protocol test app because I created an optimized transfer mode when files are being sent whole (it bypasses all calls to librsync). This makes my "rZync" test app faster than rsync for sending whole files (rather than 4x slower, like i

small security-related rsync extension

2002-06-21 Thread Dan Stromberg
Included below is a shar archive containing two patches that together: 1) make backup files get their setuid and setgid bits stripped by default 2) add a "-s" option that allows backup files to continue to have these privileges This means that if you update a collection of binaries with rsync,

à l'attention du Bureau d'études automatismes - Proposition d'envoi d'un nouveau catalogue de composants

2002-06-21 Thread KV FRANCE
A l'attention du Responsable du Bureau d'études automatismes - Merci de bien vouloir apporter votre attention à ce message. Bonjour, Nous avons le plaisir de vous proposer de vous envoyer gratuitement notre nouveau catalogue de 330 pages. Pour l'obtenir, retournez-nous cet email avec votre nom

Re: Release 3 of "rzync" new-protocol test

2002-06-21 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 03:46:39AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > The count of transferred bytes in the latest protocol is now below what > rsync sends for many commands -- both a start-from-scratch update or a > fully-up-to-date update are usually smaller, for instance. This is > mainly because m

Re: cronning rsync

2002-06-21 Thread Adrian Ho
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:47:14PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know if the setlock thing is completely immune to racing. setlock (and possibly other utilities like it) basically obtains an exclusive lock on a user-specified file before running the indicated program. If flock()/lock

Release 3 of "rzync" new-protocol test

2002-06-21 Thread Wayne Davison
For anyone who'd like to check out the latest release of my "rzync" [sic] test release, I've just released a new version. For those that might not have time to look at the code but could provide some feedback based on a rough description, I've created the following simple web page: http://ww

user mapping

2002-06-21 Thread Tom Worley
I was wondering if it would be possible to keep a user/uid <-> file map so that root access wouldn't be necessary to store the files and retrieve them with the correct original usernames (or uids), specifying a filename on the command line as something like .rsyncuidmap. Or even a file system s