RFC: Mount namespace option

2014-04-03 Thread Marian Marinov
Hello guys, I'm working a lot with Linux Containers(LXC) and find it extremely nice to have the ability to rsync files from the host machine to the container without the need of SSH. What I did was a simple patch, which added the new option --mount-ns-pid=PID and also added a call to setns()

RFC: slow-down option

2014-04-03 Thread Marian Marinov
Hello, I've been using rsync on some backup servers for years. In 2011 we had a situation where the FS of the backup server was behaving strange, even thou there was enough available I/O, the fs(ext4 on 16TB partition with a lot of inodes) was lagging. After much testing we found that rsync

Re: RFC: slow-down option

2014-04-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
Marian Marinov wrote... I've been using rsync on some backup servers for years. In 2011 we had a situation where the FS of the backup server was behaving strange, even thou there was enough available I/O, the fs(ext4 on 16TB partition with a lot of inodes) was lagging. After much testing we

Re: RFC: slow-down option

2014-04-03 Thread Joe
This is way beyond my level of expertise, but wouldn't something like ionice help with that? Also, check out: 2 more pipe utilities Viewer throttle http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml Throttle - limits bandwidth of a pipe - for use with network transfers

Re: RFC: slow-down option

2014-04-03 Thread Christoph Biedl
Joe wrote... This is way beyond my level of expertise, but wouldn't something like ionice help with that? Although I'm not Marian, probably not. The ionice program does a reasonable good job when it's about prioritizing read operation. The context makes me guess it's rather about writing.

Re: RFC: slow-down option

2014-04-03 Thread Marian Marinov
On 04/03/2014 02:48 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote: Marian Marinov wrote... I've been using rsync on some backup servers for years. In 2011 we had a situation where the FS of the backup server was behaving strange, even thou there was enough available I/O, the fs(ext4 on 16TB partition with a lot

Re: RFC: slow-down option

2014-04-03 Thread Marian Marinov
On 04/03/2014 03:35 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote: Joe wrote... This is way beyond my level of expertise, but wouldn't something like ionice help with that? Although I'm not Marian, probably not. The ionice program does a reasonable good job when it's about prioritizing read operation. The

rsync not completing with error

2014-04-03 Thread Smith, Gina C. (MSFC-IS40)[NICS]
Has anyone ever seen this error with an rsync rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at rsync.c(543) [sender=3.0.7] Gina Smith NICS/System Administrator Desk 256-961-9382 Cell 256-655-6531 You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else

Re: Beating a dead horse

2014-04-03 Thread Henri Shustak
Every year or two I get stuck on this same problem involving excluding. This reply assumes that you would like to backup specific directories via the excludes file, which is believe is what you are attempting to accomplish. Take a look at the information at the following URL :

rsync repeatedly hangs during transfer

2014-04-03 Thread Matthew DeNardo
I have been using rsync to back up my desktop computer (Mac Mini, OSX 10.9.2, 2.5 GHz i5, 4 GB RAM) to a NAS (Dell Dimension running freenas 0.7.2 Sabanda revision 5266, Pentium D 2.66 GHz, 1 GB RAM). The Mac is connected to my router (Cisco E3200) via 5 GHz wireless G and the NAS is plugged in

Rsync Bug Reporting

2014-04-03 Thread Colin L Rice
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, So I reported a bug to the bugzilla, https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10527. No one seems to have commented on it or categorized it, so I'm wondering if there is something else I should do to report the bug? Or are people just busy?