Re: RFE: using rsync as a backup tool (preserve access time compres sdestination files) ?

2002-10-30 Thread tim . conway
It's not up to the application whether atime gets updated. That's like complaining about find making your hard drive light flash. The only thing rsync could do would be to note the atime before reading the file, then falsely set it back to what it was, after reading the file, and hope that it

Rsync development status

2002-10-30 Thread Green, Paul
Is rsync under active maintenance and development? I ask because I have twice submitted a small set of patches to this mailing list and have never received any indication that the proposed patches were either applied or rejected. I notice that the rsync-cvs mailing archive shows that no patches

hundreds of thousands files

2002-10-30 Thread Ryan
I am rsyncing several hunderds of thousands of files in several directories. The way I got rsync to work for me was I wrote a script which NFS mounts the directory I am rsyncing first before starting, and then it goes through the directories and rsyncs them in bite sizeable chunks by going a few

Re: hundreds of thousands files

2002-10-30 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:40:10PM -0700, Ryan wrote: I am rsyncing several hunderds of thousands of files in several directories. The way I got rsync to work for me was I wrote a script which NFS mounts the directory I am rsyncing first before starting, and then it goes through the

upload to rsync server syntax problems

2002-10-30 Thread N. Thomas
What I'm trying to do: upload files from my local machine to an rsync server running on a remote host. What I don't know: syntax on how to do this. I initially set the conf file so that I could download from the remote machine to my local machine, the syntax: rsync -azv --delete

Issues with ownership and group

2002-10-30 Thread Remington I, Scott (S.M.)
I'm using rsync to backup files from host A to host B. host A is running Solaris 2.6 with rsync 2.3.1 host B is running Solaris 7 with rsync 2.5.5 host A runs as root and syncs to host B through OpenSSH 3.4p1 to a non-root user on host B. If I bring a file back from host B to host A, I find

Re: Issues with ownership and group

2002-10-30 Thread Tripp Lilley
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Remington I, Scott (S.M.) wrote: I've tried rsync with --numeric-ids and -gop (amongst other options) and experimented with some other things, but can't seem to get my files back to host A with the original owner and group. The receiving side must be run as root in order

RE: Issues with ownership and group

2002-10-30 Thread Remington I, Scott (S.M.)
Thank you, I'll follow up with your suggestions. And, BTW, I LOVE the term *guruly*. That's a new one for me :-} -Original Message- From: Tripp Lilley To: Remington I, Scott (S.M.) Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' Sent: 10/30/02 9:52 PM Subject: Re: Issues with ownership and group On Wed, 30