Questions about exclude-file

2003-03-06 Thread Max Kipness
Is there anyway to keep rsync from reporting an error when attempting to sync pagefile.sys (through a samba share)? It seems like any type of exclusion of the file gets ignored, why is that? Anyway around it? Also, of experimented with the exclude-from syntax quite a bit and haven't figure out

Questions about exclude-file

2003-03-10 Thread Max Kipness
Is there anyway to keep rsync from reporting an error when attempting to sync pagefile.sys (through a samba share)? It seems like any type of exclusion of the file gets ignored, why is that? Anyway around it? Also, of experimented with the exclude-from syntax quite a bit and haven't figure out

RE: Questions about exclude-file

2003-03-10 Thread Max Kipness
Thanks for the response. Concerning the first question of excluding pagefile.sys, yes it would indeed be in use. So you are saying that you cannot exclude a file that is in use? - Max On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 07:28:38AM -0600, Max Kipness wrote: Is there anyway to keep rsync from reporting

Include-from ?

2003-08-03 Thread Max Kipness
Hello - I just finished doing a search of the archives and couldn't seem to get this answered. Example, I have a root directory containing the following directories: /Test1 /Test2 /Test3 I want to rsync only /Test2 and all subdirs under. So my include-from file looks like: + Test2/* - /*

RE: Include-from ?

2003-08-03 Thread Max Kipness
: Include-from ? On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:35:22AM -0500, Max Kipness wrote: Hello - I just finished doing a search of the archives and couldn't seem to get this answered. Example, I have a root directory containing the following directories: /Test1 /Test2 /Test3 I

RE: Include-from ?

2003-08-03 Thread Max Kipness
PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 8:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Include-from ? On Sunday 03 August 2003 15:14, Max Kipness wrote: Thanks for the info. I actually did not specify my configuration right so that it is where I was going wrong. However, I'm still

RE: Question on --include-from option.

2003-08-14 Thread Max Kipness
To: Max Kipness Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Question on --include-from option. Hi Max! Done that, still no joy... ;-(( ppukweb2% more rsync-include-file /tmp/loris/testrsync1/ /tmp/loris/testrsync2/ /tmp

RE: Question on --include-from option.

2003-08-14 Thread Max Kipness
Hi Loris, I believe you will need to add a trailing slash to each line to get the contents within. Max -Original Message- From: Loris Serena[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 8/13/03 7:15:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question on --include-from option. Hello list, I am

RE: Question on --include-from option.

2003-08-14 Thread Max Kipness
-Original Message- From: Loris Serena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 7:39 AM To: Max Kipness Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Question on --include-from option. Hi Max! Done that, still

Operation not permitted?

2003-09-09 Thread Max Kipness
Hello, Can someone tell me what the problem is here. I am doing an rsync on a sendmail spool directory to a folder that is a samba mount. Why is rsync trying to change owner? Does it have to? I tried manually changing owner (as root) on a file that is sitting on the samba mount and I got the

Logging updated files?

2003-09-21 Thread Max Kipness
Hello - I've been doing some experimenting this morning with logging and can't seem to get exactly what I'm looking for. What I'd like, is to be able to get a listing of all files that changed on the local side and that were updated to the remote side via rsync. The literal data info tells me

Logging updated files?

2003-09-21 Thread Max Kipness
Hello - I've been doing some experimenting this morning with logging and can't seem to get exactly what I'm looking for. What I'd like, is to be able to get a listing of all files that changed on the local side and that were updated to the remote side via rsync. The literal data info tells me

Logging updated files?

2003-09-21 Thread Max Kipness
Hello - I've been doing some experimenting this morning with logging and can't seem to get exactly what I'm looking for. What I'd like, is to be able to get a listing of all files that changed on the local side and that were updated to the remote side via rsync. The literal data info tells me

Logging updated files?

2003-09-21 Thread Max Kipness
Hello - I've been doing some experimenting this morning with logging and can't seem to get exactly what I'm looking for. What I'd like, is to be able to get a listing of all files that changed on the local side and that were updated to the remote side via rsync. The literal data info tells me

RE: Logging updated files?

2003-09-24 Thread Max Kipness
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:38:06PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: Why did you send six copies of this? He got NDR delevery delay notices and mistook them for bounces. Yes, I continued to get the following error message back: soul_rebel,reflex.at (The name was not found at the remote site.

RE: Logging updated files?

2003-09-26 Thread Max Kipness
What I'd like, is to be able to get a listing of all files that changed on the local side and that were updated to the remote side via rsync. The literal data info tells me how many bytes were transferred total, but I'd like to get the break down per file, or at the least just

Rsync download traffic

2003-10-16 Thread Max Kipness
Hello, I started monitoring lan traffic with RRDTool on a linux box the other day that runs rsync, and I've found what I would consider a strange traffic pattern. This linux box rsync about 2Gb of data to a local samba share that is connected to a Windows 2003 server. Based on the literal

RE: Rsync download traffic

2003-10-16 Thread Max Kipness
I started monitoring lan traffic with RRDTool on a linux box the other day that runs rsync, and I've found what I would consider a strange traffic pattern. This linux box rsync about 2Gb of data to a local samba share that is connected to a Windows 2003 server. Based on the literal

RE: --bwlimit not working right

2003-10-17 Thread Max Kipness
I cant get the bwlimit option working right. If i set this option over 400 kbyte per sec i still only get 400kbyte per sec, whether wich value i set. I try this option with a 100MB big file. I use a debian stable System with rsync version 2.5.6cvs protocol version 26. Can someone tell

RE: Smoother bandwidth limiting

2003-11-07 Thread Max Kipness
I rather like bwlimit... i suffer the same problem as Mikko in that I have a slow uplink. I haven't experienced his particular problem, though, and bwlimit seems to do its job well... Using some other networking tool or QOS just complicates the matter, and since rsync excels at doing

RE: [RFC] transfer files listed in a file.

2003-12-11 Thread Max Kipness
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:49:51PM -0500, James A. Morrison wrote: Hi, We've found a need to list the files to transfer in a files since our command lines got too long. Anyway, the attached patch implements reading from a file with two command line options. The first is

RE: Rsyncing Windows directory to a Linux box: problem with spaces in directory names

2003-12-16 Thread Max Kipness
I am trying to rsync folders/files hosted on a Windows machine to a Linux machine. Many of the directory names have spaces in them. How can I list them in a file so that the --include-from option use them correctly? Thanks! Charles try\ escaping\ the\ spaces\ like\ this or

RE: Rsyncing Windows directory to a Linux box: problem with spacesin directory names

2003-12-16 Thread Max Kipness
I am trying to rsync folders/files hosted on a Windows machine to a Linux machine. Many of the directory names have spaces in them. How can I list them in a file so that the --include-from option use them correctly? Thanks! Charles try\ escaping\ the\ spaces\

RE: Rsyncing Windows directory to a Linux box: problem with spacesin directory names

2003-12-16 Thread Max Kipness
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:05:50AM +0900, Charles Nadeau wrote: backup=`cat /etc/snapshot/include.text` rsync -va [...] $backup $backuproot/$type.1/ This is entirely a shell issue -- the shell you are using is splitting the args at all whitespace, and you need to tell it to stop. In

RE: Rsyncing Windows directory to a Linux box: problem with spacesin directory names

2003-12-16 Thread Max Kipness
Based on what was just said above, I am using Bash version 2.05b.0(1), and no extra configs for splitting are necessary as it splits appropriately at the end of the line. No, bash splits on all whitespace by default. Take a file like this: one two three four five six

Cons of using --size-only

2004-01-02 Thread Max Kipness
I'm doing some tests on rsyncing some Sendmail spool files every 15 minutes to another Sendmail server as a backup. It seems to work well and efficiently, but I did notice that when users connect via POP the spool file updates it's time. Using log-format option, I could see that even though the

Copying hard-linked tree structure

2004-01-06 Thread Max Kipness
Hope this isnt' too off topic... I have a tree structure on one server similar to the following: /Current /01-04-2003 /01-03-2003 etc... /Current holds the most recent rsynced data, and the date directories are created with cp -al on a daily basis so they are hard-linked. I'm going back 60

RE: Copying hard-linked tree structure

2004-01-07 Thread Max Kipness
I have a tree structure on one server similar to the following: /Current /01-04-2003 /01-03-2003 etc... /Current holds the most recent rsynced data, and the date directories are created with cp -al on a daily basis so they are hard-linked. I'm going back 60 days. The

RE: Copying hard-linked tree structure

2004-01-07 Thread Max Kipness
I have a tree structure on one server similar to the following: /Current /01-04-2003 /01-03-2003 etc... /Current holds the most recent rsynced data, and the date directories are created with cp -al on a daily basis so they are hard-linked. I'm going back 60

Building File List takes a long time

2004-02-05 Thread Max Kipness
I'm using rsync 2.6. Last night I started using the -files-from option. It took 6 hours to complete. Total of 126,000 files, 30gb. This was on a local network. I started another rsync process this morning (same system as above) and it's still building the file list after about 5 hours.

File walking issue?

2004-02-16 Thread Max Kipness
Hello, I'm having an issue with one particular server and am hoping someone here has dealt with this. I'm not sure whether this is a strictly samba issue or relates to the way rsync walks the file list. Basically after mounting a Windows 2000 file system using and then rsyncing the

RE: File walking issue?

2004-02-16 Thread Max Kipness
I'm having an issue with one particular server and am hoping someone here has dealt with this. I'm not sure whether this is a strictly samba issue or relates to the way rsync walks the file list. Basically after mounting a Windows 2000 file system using and then rsyncing

cp -al issues

2004-04-12 Thread Max Kipness
Hi, I'm having some strange issues when using cp in my rsync script. It seems there may be links breaking or something. Before running the actual rsync I run the following command in my script: cp -al /backup/Current /backup/$prevday Then I rsync from the source to /Current So shouldn't

RE: cp -al issues

2004-04-13 Thread Max Kipness
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 10:18:53AM -0500, Max Kipness wrote: It seems there may be links breaking or something. As I would expect -- all the files that get updated become uniquely linked. Without that, you wouldn't have any backups in the older dirs. Thanks for the explanation Wayne. I think

DU and Hard Links?

2004-06-19 Thread Max Kipness
Hi, I'm doing a 30 day rotational backup using rysnc. If I go to the root of the backup directory and use: du --max-depth=1 -h, it gives me the actual space being taken up by each incremental directory, the space being taken by the current directory, and then the total of all. For example:

RE: DU and Hard Links?

2004-06-19 Thread Max Kipness
-Original Message- From: Wayne Davison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 3:22 PM To: Max Kipness Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DU and Hard Links? On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 01:55:02PM -0500, Max Kipness wrote: But what I would like to do

Cannot Allocate Memory

2005-06-07 Thread Max Kipness
Hello - I've just upgraded to 2.6.5. On a new set of servers I'm trying to sync I seem to be running into a log of memory allocation errors. With some of the servers, I start the rsync session, and it counts so many files and then stops. At that point I'm unable to control-c out of the process.

Rsync Windows Corrupt File

2005-09-27 Thread Max Kipness
I've been using rsync for years on linux based systems but just recently downloaded and installed rsync on an XP computer for a certain application. For the most part it works fine except for one issue pertaining to an open file. When backing up the My Documents directory, there is an Outlook

Question about Domino NSF files

2005-09-27 Thread Max Kipness
I use Rsync to backup 53Gb worth of nsf files from a domino wintel based server, to a linux server. This works fine, however when trying to use cp –al to make incremental copies, each copy always ends up being 53Gb in size. I’m not sure if this is because the files are in use by the domino server

Sent larger than literal

2006-03-12 Thread Max Kipness
Hello - When using the stats option I understand that Literal should be the amount of data that did not match, and that Sent should be the actually amount of bytes that were sent. I always use compress for remote transfers, so I'm used to Sent being smaller (usually around half the size) than

Stats after network failure?

2006-03-12 Thread Max Kipness
When rsync fails due to a network connectivity issue to a remote host, is it possible to still receive stats to that point in time? In other words, I'm trying to figure out how I could still receive the amount of sent data at least. As of now, with version 2.6.3 it seems like rsync justs

link-dest or cp -al?

2006-04-08 Thread Max Kipness
I'm looking at updating some of my rsync scripts. For some time I've used the following inside a perl script to create my 30 day versions of backups: cp -al /backup/Current /backup/$yesterday_date rsync /source/ /Current/ --stats --recursive --archive --times --modify-window=1 --delete

Issue with hard links, please help!

2006-05-11 Thread Max Kipness
Hello, Sometimes when creating hard links to the rsync destination directory, it seems like the new directory (created from the cp -al command) ends up with all the data. This causes a problem in the sense that if the rsync destination directory had 21GB, after the cp -al command, it ends up

RE: Issue with hard links, please help!

2006-05-13 Thread Max Kipness
On Thu 11 May 2006, Max Kipness wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# cp -al Latest/ mtest/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# du --max-depth=1 -h 21G ./Latest 8.7M./mtest 21G . [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# rm mtest/ -rf [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup]# cp -al Latest/ test/ [EMAIL

RE: Issue with hard links, please help!

2006-05-14 Thread Max Kipness
You could of course (right after an rsync run) do a cd newdir; find . -type f -links 1 -print and then randomly check a couple and compare all their attributes such as mtime, permissions to the previous dir. (I still recommend using the --link-dest thing over using cp -al first.) Ok, I

RE: Issue with hard links, please help!

2006-05-14 Thread Max Kipness
Number of files: 50285 Number of files transferred: 38 Total file size: 16193254538 bytes Total transferred file size: 4077908049 bytes Literal data: 86201342 bytes Matched data: 3989904700 bytes File list size: 945440 File list generation time: 6.615 seconds File list transfer

RE: Issue with hard links, please help!

2006-05-14 Thread Max Kipness
Recheck the statistics: 4GB file something like 4,000,000,000 bytes Total bytes sent: 87,436,048 -- MUCH LESS than 4 GB Total bytes received: 539,014 Total transferred file size: 4077908049 bytes Sorry, got it now. I missed the 'Total bytes sent' stat and was assuming

RE: access of windows shadow copy by rsync?

2006-05-15 Thread Max Kipness
Hello Im trying to access shadow copies under windows XP by rsync. Shadow copies may be accessed as a device with the following syntax: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1 I try it with rsync but the log always states: rsync: link_stat

RE: access of windows shadow copy by rsync?

2006-05-21 Thread Max Kipness
Is there any way to access the shadow device by the copy command and to pipe the files to rsync? that means to filter the files by rsync (to copy only the necessary files)? Michael Sorry for the late response. I don't know if you can pipe directly to rsync from the xp copy command, as I

Busy file and partial transfer??

2006-11-09 Thread Max Kipness
Hi, I actually wrote about this issue over a year ago and got a response from Wayne which I'm thinking resolved the problem. Now I've got the issue again, even though I removed the option that appeared to be the culprit. Basically I'm using rsync to backup a directory structure on a 2003 Server,

Copy 100gb+ file over LAN?

2006-12-18 Thread Max Kipness
Hopefully this is not too off topic. I have a server in which I'm creating an Exchange Information Store backup using ntbackup. The .bkf file it creates is 112GB. My goal was first to rsync it over to a local linux server, and then rsync just the changes over the internet to another linux server.

Deleting...log path

2007-06-19 Thread Max Kipness
For some time I've noticed something that seems very strange to me when setting an rsync session for delete. The destination path of the backup is /backup/Latest/Latest/CORP-SERVER/ so for new/changed files the logs appropriately report for example: backup/Latest/Latest/CORP-SERVER/ for

RE: Deleting...log path

2007-06-21 Thread Max Kipness
On Tue 19 Jun 2007, Max Kipness wrote: For some time I've noticed something that seems very strange to me when setting an rsync session for delete. The destination path of the backup is /backup/Latest/Latest/CORP- SERVER/ so for new/changed files the logs appropriately report

RE: Deleting...log path

2007-06-22 Thread Max Kipness
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:19:23PM -0500, Max Kipness wrote: The %f settings gives you the full path. This is what I want. The %n setting gives you just the file name. No, %n gives you the path to the file within the transfer. %f includes path info from outside the transfer when output

RE: Deleting...log path

2007-06-22 Thread Max Kipness
Max Kipness wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:19:23PM -0500, Max Kipness wrote: The %f settings gives you the full path. This is what I want. The %n setting gives you just the file name. No, %n gives you the path to the file within the transfer. %f includes path info from outside

RE: Deleting...log path

2007-06-22 Thread Max Kipness
-Original Message- From: Wayne Davison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 1:39 PM To: Max Kipness Cc: rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: Deleting...log path On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 07:02:30AM -0500, Max Kipness wrote: it's still not showing the 'outside' full

dry-run bytest to be transferred?

2007-11-11 Thread Max Kipness
Is there anyway on a dry-run to actually see per file how many bytes are to be transferred? On a normal run I use --log-format=/%f/%l/%b/%i which shows the total file size and the actual bytes transferred. Also, during a dry-run, is there anyway to show the Literal Data? Basically, I'm trying

Change destination root?

2007-12-16 Thread Max Kipness
I'm wondering if it's possible to do the following. I've got a source directory of /data with several subdirectories such as subdir1/ subdir2/ subdir3/ , etc. I'd like to rsync these to a different host under directory /backup, so that I have paths /backup/subdir1, /backup/subdir2, etc. I also

Re: Change destination root?

2007-12-16 Thread Max Kipness
Matt McCutchen-7 wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 07:53 -0800, Max Kipness wrote: I've got a source directory of /data with several subdirectories such as subdir1/ subdir2/ subdir3/ , etc. I'd like to rsync these to a different host under directory /backup, so that I have paths /backup/subdir1

Replaced file?

2003-01-08 Thread Max Kipness II
Title: Message Hello - I'm wondering if there is a way around this particular issue? I backup a database into a dump file. I backup this file using rsync. I then make a few minor changes in the database and then create another dump file. I then backup with rsync. Instead of merely

Stats

2003-01-09 Thread Max Kipness II
Title: Message Hello - Can someone please clarify the meaning of these stats. This is the rsync'ing of one file remotely over a wan. Total file size: 383219712 bytesTotal transferred file size: 383219712 bytesLiteral data: 3143680 bytesMatched data: 380076032 bytes The total file size

Rsync Logs?

2003-01-11 Thread Max Kipness II
Title: Message Hello - Is there any way to get an ongoing log of what's happening with rsync (most recent files transferred, etc) while rsync is running in the background? I started a 20GB rsync using cron over a wan last night and had know way of knowing where it was at this morning.

rsync server with conf file

2003-01-11 Thread Max Kipness II
Title: Message Hello - I have normally been using rsync using only a single : in the command line. What are the benefits of setting up an rsync server on the other side using double colons :: ? Is it more efficient? Here is an example of what I use. The server 'iceland' is on the other

Windows Permissions?

2003-02-04 Thread Max Kipness II
Hello - I do some rsyncing of windows files through a samba share. Is there anyway to preserve windows permissions if needed to be restored? Thanks - Max -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: