Re: uid/gid settings in rsyncd.conf not respected?

2009-02-13 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 12 Feb 2009, Harry Mangalam wrote: However, this does not work for the backup (rsyncd refuses to read the files with an entry in /var/log/rsyncd.log: auth failed on module svn from nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn ( xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): unauthorized user. This message would indicate that the rsync

Suggestions for rsync

2009-02-13 Thread Ryan hains
Hi, I have 2 Suggestion for rsync. 1)You should have a feature that enables rsync to be able to manage a cluster of web servers with load balancers, so if a person has 100 web servers connected together and running them as a cluster with load balancers, rsync will mount all the hard-drives of the

Re: Suggestions for rsync

2009-02-13 Thread Jon Watson
I'm not sure either of this functionality falls within rsync's purview. Rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It's not an application that mounts drives or clusters space or provides P2P functionality. I can see using rsync *within* some apps that provide

Re: uid/gid settings in rsyncd.conf not respected?

2009-02-13 Thread Harry Mangalam
Thanks for the reply and my apologies - I took the wrong line from the log (from a previous set of trials). The instigating line from the rsync receiver (trying to rsync the [minas] module) is: rsync -ar -vvv rsyncu...@xxx.xxx.uci.edu::minas . opening tcp connection to xxx.xxx.uci.edu port 873

Re: Suggestions for rsync

2009-02-13 Thread Michael Chletsos
check out drbd - it might do what you want. It can be thought of as a RAID across networks, since it works on the device level, not the file level, but it is not a RAID. On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Jon Watson jwat...@watsysgroup.com wrote: I'm not sure either of this functionality falls

Macintosh rsync: Inconsistent Behaviour: Hints Appreciated

2009-02-13 Thread Yves Petronin
I have also used Mike Bombich' very clear instructions foud at http://www.bombich.com/mactips/rsync.html in order to compile the folllowing version of rsync on OS10.4.11: rsync version 3.0.4 protocol version 30 I could not easily however find the associated manual to better understand

error in transfer: aquota.user/aquota.group

2009-02-13 Thread Joao Ferreira
Hello, I'm having problems with users quotas when transfering files between 2 linux based systems. the user quotas in the detination host are not the same as in the source host. I get these errors: rsync: rename /home/.aquota.group.JZ9E3B - home/aquota.group: Operation not permitted (1) rsync:

error in transfer: aquota.user/aquota.group

2009-02-13 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
Hello, I'm having problems with users quotas when transfering files between 2 linux based systems. the user quotas in the detination host are not the same as in the source host. I get these errors: rsync: rename /home/.aquota.group.JZ9E3B - home/aquota.group: Operation not permitted (1) rsync: