Need help with exclude

2003-11-24 Thread daniel
Hi all, I am having *massive* problems trying to exclude a single directory from an rsync. I have serv1 and serv2. I am trying to rsync /foo/test from serv1 to /foo on serv2 I want to exclude the directory /foo/test/dir1 So I try: rsync -av --exclude-from=/foo/rsync.excludes /foo/test serv

Re: rsync-bugs and unclear semantics when copying multiple source-dirs to one target

2003-11-24 Thread Martin Pool
On 24 Nov 2003, Dirk Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Martin Pool, > > I tried to ask via the rsync-mailing list but never got an answer. So I > contact you directly. > > I refer to the rsync syntax > > rsync [OPTION]... SRC [SRC]... DEST > > with more than one SRC, which is mentioned in

Re: minimalist rsync on windows

2003-11-24 Thread Lapo Luchini
Brian wrote: Hi, I get a "Local: Bad packet length 1349676916" when I try to use rsync-minimalist. I tried with the provided cygwin and with the latest cygwin. Used options, debug info, and/or other infos? -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lap

Re: minimalist rsync on windows

2003-11-24 Thread Brian
Hi, I get a "Local: Bad packet length 1349676916" when I try to use rsync-minimalist. I tried with the provided cygwin and with the latest cygwin. -- ContagiousDesign! web . design . software . photo Brian Rose . programmer Stacey Rose . designer (604)-588-8827 . contagiousdesignATshawDOTca

Re: Exclude files bigger than X

2003-11-24 Thread Michael Adam
Hi, On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 02:18:13PM +0100, Mario Ohnewald wrote: > I want to rsync a few homedirectories which also contain big > *.tar or *.bin files. > Does rsync have a option where it will NOT transfer files which > are bigger than X MB/GB. How about something like this: find [src] -

unable to open configuration file "rsyncd.conf"

2003-11-24 Thread Michael B Allen
I'm getting an error trying to pull a file with ssh/rsync: $ rsync -e 'ssh -i .ssh/id_rsa' [EMAIL PROTECTED]::www/index.html index.html rsync: unable to open configuration file "rsyncd.conf": No such file or directory rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at clientserver.c(502) rsync: connec

Re: minimalist rsync on windows

2003-11-24 Thread Brian
Hi, My ssh can't create the directory /home/user/.ssh. I realize this is because I am using the ssh outside of the Cygwin environment, however it seems I should be able through a init script with a variable or creating my own /etc/password file, that I could fool it. Is there a way to do this? I

Re[2]: how rsync works

2003-11-24 Thread Terry
On Monday, November 24, 2003 at 7:04 PM, jw wrote: > The intent was to, if there is interest, get feedback to > polish the document for placement on the web site. Or to > let someone who is perhaps a better writer take it over. > Not to self-publish the thing. Perhaps i had to high of > expect

Re: how rsync works

2003-11-24 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 09:14:56AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>?wrote: > >?On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 03:49:45AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > >>? > >>?Aside from numerous other weaknesses that have crept into > >>?the manpage i do note that there doe

Rsync & Samba

2003-11-24 Thread John K.
If anyone has time to look at this problem I would appreciate it. I think I am looking for a way to increase the "timeout" in samba (in the smb.conf file) for reporting a "down" link or "can't read xyz file". However I am writing to you folks because this problem has come up while using rsync

Re: how rsync works

2003-11-24 Thread John Van Essen
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 03:49:45AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: >>  >> Aside from numerous other weaknesses that have crept into >> the manpage i do note that there doesn't seem to be any >> point where it is mentioned that rsync replaces des

Exclude files bigger than X

2003-11-24 Thread Mario Ohnewald
Hello List! I want to rsync a few homedirectories which also contain big *.tar or *.bin files. Does rsync have a option where it will NOT transfer files which are bigger than X MB/GB. I did have a look in man rsync, but could not really find what i am lookig for. If rsync does not have that featur

Offtopic: experimental perl backup script

2003-11-24 Thread Maarten Boot (CWEU-USERS/CWNL)
Hi, I am writing an experimental implementation in perl to do backup/replication. experimental implementation is availible at www.mboot.org/ftp/amrta its an experiment in its very early stages, currently running on W2K with activestate 5.8.0. I can do backups and restores at the moment. some d