Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-25 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:52:41AM +1000, dtra wrote: > the cron job uses nice -19 rsync > [...] > sorry, one more thing, on the server we are getting the files from, > max connections is set to 1 Are you connecting to an rsync daemon or not? If you are running a daemon, run the *daemon* as "nice

[Bug 2741] New: Cant start daemon

2005-05-25 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2741 Summary: Cant start daemon Product: rsync Version: 2.6.3 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Windows XP Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: core

Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-25 Thread zhijiang tian
I would suggest that your script that calls the various rsync commands creates a lockfile and whatever script that is spawning off the additional rsync processes waits until this lockfile is gone before doing anything. Ray On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:52:41AM +1000, dtra wrote: > dtra wrote: > > >

Re: timestamps

2005-05-25 Thread zhijiang tian
I actually have to use rsync-2.5.7-5.3E which is included in RHEL3. I assume that the problem with the aging timestamps results in more files are transferred... I've no idea why the source timestamps are changed... Can anyone explain this?? Or does anyone has an idea why it could happen? Juergen

Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-25 Thread zhijiang tian
dtra wrote: > hi all > > we're using rsync to backup our web server at the moment using it in a > cron job > the server we are using to receive all the sync files is a live but > not heavily used linux machine > but rsync still takes up more resources than we want it to > it takes up to 95% (flu

Confusion regarding rsync vs. rsyncx

2005-05-25 Thread zhijiang tian
We currently do backup using rsync amongst Linux and Solaris machines. Modulo an ACL issue that we had to patch, this is working extremely well. But I want to add our OSX machines to the mix. This is, unfortunately, leaving me confused about rsyncx. I can do the normal thing from OSX using rsy

[Bug 2570] cygwin version of rsync produces "Fatal exception 0E in VXD IFSMGR(04)" on Windows 98 SE

2005-05-25 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2570 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-05-25 20:07 --- I am sorry, I did not. I'm not sure where to report it. If you know, I'd be willing to forward it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab

Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-25 Thread dtra
Andrew Gideon wrote: dtra wrote: but rsync still takes up more resources than we want it to it takes up to 95% (fluctuating) cpu load and a fair bit of memory too the cron job uses nice -19 rsync but that doesn't seem to do anything, is there anyway to make it use like 5% cpu or something?

Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-25 Thread Andrew Gideon
dtra wrote: > but rsync still takes up more resources than we want it to > it takes up to 95% (fluctuating) cpu load and a fair bit of memory too > > the cron job uses nice -19 rsync > but that doesn't seem to do anything, is there anyway to make it use > like 5% cpu or something? If the other u

Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-25 Thread Ray Van Dolson
I would suggest that your script that calls the various rsync commands creates a lockfile and whatever script that is spawning off the additional rsync processes waits until this lockfile is gone before doing anything. Ray On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:52:41AM +1000, dtra wrote: > dtra wrote: > > >

Re: timestamps

2005-05-25 Thread Juergen Busam
I actually have to use rsync-2.5.7-5.3E which is included in RHEL3. I assume that the problem with the aging timestamps results in more files are transferred... I've no idea why the source timestamps are changed... Can anyone explain this?? Or does anyone has an idea why it could happen? Juergen

Re: how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-25 Thread dtra
dtra wrote: hi all we're using rsync to backup our web server at the moment using it in a cron job the server we are using to receive all the sync files is a live but not heavily used linux machine but rsync still takes up more resources than we want it to it takes up to 95% (fluctuating) cp

how to reduce rsync system usage

2005-05-25 Thread dtra
hi all we're using rsync to backup our web server at the moment using it in a cron job the server we are using to receive all the sync files is a live but not heavily used linux machine but rsync still takes up more resources than we want it to it takes up to 95% (fluctuating) cpu load and a f

Confusion regarding rsync vs. rsyncx

2005-05-25 Thread Andrew Gideon
We currently do backup using rsync amongst Linux and Solaris machines. Modulo an ACL issue that we had to patch, this is working extremely well. But I want to add our OSX machines to the mix. This is, unfortunately, leaving me confused about rsyncx. I can do the normal thing from OSX using rsy

rsync file sync by priority

2005-05-25 Thread Melanie Pai
Hello All - I'm looking for a switch(es) to ensure rsync indexes the pull of files from remotedir, LIFO (last in first out) and then by .ext type where file basenames are similar. example) file_a.xml ctime of 09:01:07 file_a.jar ctime of 09:01:02 get transfered before file_b.xml ctime of 0

Re: timestamps

2005-05-25 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:24:50PM +1000, Juergen Busam wrote: > how is it possible that the files age a few hours on the source? If you're running at least 2.6.4, use the -i option to see a summary of what differences rsync sees between the pairs of files. For instance, a summary like this: >f.

Re: Monitor a folder

2005-05-25 Thread Stuart Halliday
> Thus, my question is; can Rsync monitor a folder or filesystem for > changes and perform it's synchronization when changes occur as opposed > to being "cron'd" to run at specified intervals? No it can't. But whenever I need to monitor a folder for changes I just write a simply low priority sc

°Eric Moos/SYSTEM/FRANKFURT/BFI/BNP is out of the office.

2005-05-25 Thread eric . moos
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Monitor a folder

2005-05-25 Thread Dave Morrow
Title: Monitor a folder Hi all.  Please forgive me if this question is of the "RTFM" variety.  I am new to Rsync and just attempting to determine if it will meet my needs with respect to one problem I am attempting to solve. I have a web application which is running on Apache2/PHP which allo

Re: RSYNC doesn't like Unicode?

2005-05-25 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 25 May 2005, Stuart Halliday wrote: > > I was using Rsync to copy favourites from one english UK XP sp2 machine to a > Windows 2000 sp4 english UK machine. > No different language settings involved. > > It just so happened that I had placed in my favourites some URLs with a few > Europea

Re: RSYNC doesn't like Unicode?

2005-05-25 Thread Stuart Halliday
Paul Slootman said: > The common issue seems to be windows systems, as far as I can tell > here. > Perhaps transferring files (or rather, filenames) between windows > systems with differing locales (or "language settings") is the problem, > and someone with intimate knowledge of how to manipulate

Re: timestamps

2005-05-25 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 25 May 2005, Juergen Busam wrote: > > I'm syncing a windows share from a NetApp filer to a local partition on > my RHEL3 box. I observe the following behavior: > > - rsync syncs more than neccessary, files that haven't changed since years > - files that have been synced, aged for an hour o

Re: RSYNC doesn't like Unicode?

2005-05-25 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 25 May 2005, Stuart Halliday wrote: > > Unicode isn't the reserve of the Chinese language. So I'm more concerned that > no one else in the *Western* world hasn't came across this bug! > > I mean it doesn't appear to work with European accent characters does it? Rsync couldn't give a toss

timestamps

2005-05-25 Thread Juergen Busam
Hi all! I'm syncing a windows share from a NetApp filer to a local partition on my RHEL3 box. I observe the following behavior: - rsync syncs more than neccessary, files that haven't changed since years - files that have been synced, aged for an hour or two on the netapp host Environment: cifs

Solved: rsync incorrectly deletes files ?

2005-05-25 Thread Frank Post
Hallo Wayne, > A patch that fixes f_name_cmp() is attached. I'm also considering a more > extensive change that would simplify the logic in f_name_cmp(), but that > will have to wait until after 2.6.5 gets released. Wonderful, the patch works. > > Thanks for the report! Thanks for the very fast

RSYNC doesn't like Unicode?

2005-05-25 Thread Stuart Halliday
> I am wondering how does RYSNC users in Taiwan or China get the RSYNC > program running since most of them > are using Chinese Version of Windows. If none of them is using RSYNC, > then what is their alternative solutions to > backup their PC data in terms of using Open Source Software Maybe