Re: disconnected synchronization (mostly unidirectional)

2007-03-14 Thread Phil Howard
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 08:43:01PM +0100, Konrad Karl wrote: | please consider the following scenario: | (and pleast forgive if I have not googled enough but I was unsuccessful to | find an app what exactly does what I want) | | machine A (office) is, where most file changes/downloads etc happen.

Re: Skipping hardlinks in a copy

2007-03-09 Thread Phil Howard
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 01:34:03PM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: | OK, I wasn't aware that you couldn't hardlink a directory to another | directory. You're not supposed to be able to. But some systems allow it in a restricted manner just for very special issues such as recovery of an otherwise

Re: about lock.

2007-03-08 Thread Phil Howard
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Re: Skipping hardlinks in a copy

2007-03-08 Thread Phil Howard
-print". Note that all file types can have hard links, even symlinks. Do exclude directories as those will have many links for other reasons (e.g. 1 for self reference, 1 for being inside a directory and 1 each for each subdirectory within). -- |-------/

syncronizing file content into device content

2007-03-07 Thread Phil Howard
urce being a file, though if I could get device content to device contnt to work I guess I could fake this with the loopback device. Any ideas? -- |---/------| | Phil Howard KA9WGN (ka9wgn.ham.org) / Do not send to the address b

parallel tree recursion

2005-12-02 Thread Phil Howard
source and destination could recurse their respective trees in sync with each other and copy, create, delete, as things go through that parallel recursion. -- ----- | Phil Howard KA9WGN | http://linuxhomepage.com/

Re: trying to understand --include and --exclude

2005-12-02 Thread Phil Howard
nations. One problem is, there are no messages to explain why some file is, or is not, matched, so it is very hard to figure this out. I suspect I still don't really grasp the whole picture of how this works. It's certainly not the way I would have designed it. -- -

trying to understand --include and --exclude

2005-11-27 Thread Phil Howard
e man page just didn't really give me the correct understanding of how this works. Maybe someone can try explaining in another way. -- - | Phil Howard KA9WGN | http://linuxh

Re: mkstemp fails but data still transferred

2005-03-24 Thread Phil Howard
t) --create-fail-action=mkdir --create-fail-action=abort or some such? -- ----- | Phil Howard KA9WGN | http://linuxhomepage.com/ http://ham.org/ | | (first name) at ipal.net | http://phil.ipal.org/ http://ka9wgn.ham.org/ |

Re: rsync is slowing down

2004-04-07 Thread Phil Howard
's what I used to do before rsync. -- --------- | Phil Howard KA9WGN | http://linuxhomepage.com/ http://ham.org/ | | (first name) at ipal.net | http://phil.ipal.org

rsync is slowing down

2004-04-03 Thread Phil Howard
nized) networks, though, this could still be a major time savings, as well as traffic savings. But it clearly would have to have a special option to enable it. Has anything like this been considered before? -- ----- | Phi

Re: --include vs. --exclude

2004-04-03 Thread Phil Howard
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 07:16:26PM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: | On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Phil Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > So I have on my server a big file tree. I want to use rsync to download | > only the PDF files, which make up a small portion of that tree. So I

--include vs. --exclude

2004-03-26 Thread Phil Howard
n rsync do this by itself? Is there a way to tell rsync "only download this particular extension"? How SHOULD I have done this? I generally understand things best by knowing what sequence of steps is performed. I thought I understood this for rsync based on what the man page said.

Re: memory reduction

2004-02-08 Thread Phil Howard
eld for it. -- ----- | Phil Howard KA9WGN | http://linuxhomepage.com/ http://ham.org/ | | (first name) at ipal.net | http://phil.ipal.org/ http://ka9wgn.ham.org/ | - -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists

Re: Change in reporting for --dry-run in 2.6.x

2004-01-28 Thread Phil Howard
r a headless virtual console, where I can spy on the current running any time I want. Adding the ability to have a script extract that info, while still being able to see normal stdout and stderr output, would be good. -- -----

Re: rsync 2.6.0: ./configure goes into a loop

2004-01-04 Thread Phil Howard
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:00:09PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: | On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:11:04AM -0600, Phil Howard wrote: | > After doing a fresh extraction of the source for 2.6.0, I execute | > ./configure and it enters a loop with no output before or during. | | What shell are you

rsync 2.6.0: ./configure goes into a loop

2004-01-03 Thread Phil Howard
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Re: any way to get --one-file-system in rsyncd.conf?

2003-06-22 Thread Phil Howard
to cleanly avoid that, but bind mounts are reasonably clean even if they do clutter /etc/mtab a bit. Since I'm doing this on Linux, this is an option. I'm not sure what my options will be on other systems if/when I need to run those. -- -------

any way to get --one-file-system in rsyncd.conf?

2003-06-22 Thread Phil Howard
not the one mounted within (in that run, anyway). I do not see such an option in man rsyncd.conf. Is there an undocumented one available? -- - | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED

rsync over ssl (again)

2002-08-22 Thread Phil Howard
ication validation). Any thoughts on this? -- --------- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://ka9wgn.ham.org/| ---

option --copy-unsafe-links

2002-07-03 Thread Phil Howard
. stat() succeeds). But if stat() fails, even though lstat() would succeed, the symlink is not copied. -- - | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org

-z and -B65536 causing file corruption in 2.5.5 w/zlib 1.1.4

2002-06-22 Thread Phil Howard
c root@hadar:/root 23> ls -l /usr/sbin/rsyncd -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 548639 Jun 22 03:47 /usr/sbin/rsyncd root@hadar:/root 24> cmp /usr/bin/rsync /usr/sbin/rsyncd root@hadar:/root 25> strings strings ===

Re: exit code 23 - inappropriate error for copying symlinks?

2002-05-20 Thread Phil Howard
can potentiall break established things not expecting this. -- ----- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA |

Re: Improving the rsync protocol (RE: Rsync dies)

2002-05-20 Thread Phil Howard
ould work over any transparent stream transport without having to know what that transport is once it is established. Much of the use I make of rsync is not over ssh. -- ----- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.c

Re: Improving the rsync protocol (RE: Rsync dies)

2002-05-20 Thread Phil Howard
to see it go away even if none of those are ever adopted (it's too useful the way it is). -- ----- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

exclude vs include

2002-05-19 Thread Phil Howard
--exclude' '/testing/**' \ '--exclude' '/uemacs/**' \ '--exclude' '/v1.0/**' \ '--exclude' '/v1.1/**' \ '--exclude' '/v1.2/**' \

limiting metadata updates

2002-04-25 Thread Phil Howard
mething cleaner that already does it right, if possible. -- ----- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http:

Re: delete fails to delete everything it should like dangling symlinks

2002-03-08 Thread Phil Howard
ugh unless it was some bug from an older version that is now fixed. -- ----- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

delete fails to delete everything it should like dangling symlinks

2002-03-07 Thread Phil Howard
tory openssl-0.9.6b/work/openssl-0.9.6b deleting directory openssl-0.9.6b/work wrote 34720 bytes read 20 bytes 4087.06 bytes/sec total size is 85523954 speedup is 2461.83 root@pollux:/home/root/src 158> ===== -- ---

Re: option --delete still not completely working (2.5.2)

2002-01-28 Thread Phil Howard
exist at the source. It would have been helpful if the --delete documentation made a reference to --force. -- ----- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

Re: option --delete still not completely working (2.5.2)

2002-01-28 Thread Phil Howard
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:14:59AM +, pod wrote: | >>>>> "PH" == Phil Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | PH> This problem has persisted for as long as I've used rsync. When | PH> the --delete option is used, not all files are deleted f

option --delete still not completely working (2.5.2)

2002-01-26 Thread Phil Howard
directory there. -- ----- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

[PATCH] Re: Makefile.in (install-strip) problem & 2.5.2 build error

2002-01-26 Thread Phil Howard
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 05:40:36PM +0100, Peter Breitenlohner wrote: | 2. I just fetched rsync-2.5.2 but the build (on i686-linux) badly fails. | The complete log from configure and make is attached. ... | gcc -I. -I../rsync-2.5.2 -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -Wall -W -c ../rsync-2.5.2/rsync.c -o |rsyn

Re: Why does one of there work and the other doesn't

2001-12-03 Thread Phil Howard
sting that it be the default option, so it would nt impact anyone unless they wanted it to. -- ----- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

Re: rsync internationalization?

2001-12-03 Thread Phil Howard
of the language here, yet :-) -- --------- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

Re: Why does one of there work and the other doesn't

2001-12-03 Thread Phil Howard
ption gets around this on "ln -s". I'll do some tests with training "/" instead of "/." to see if that works for me now with 2.5.0. It may have been a bug in an older version. If I get any unexpected results with 2.5.0 I'll report back with those. Consi

Re: Why does one of there work and the other doesn't

2001-12-03 Thread Phil Howard
et retransferred even though most every file already exists somewhere on the destination. -- --------- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

Re: linking rsync-2.5.0 to libz.so

2001-12-01 Thread Phil Howard
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 03:10:13PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote: | On 1 Dec 2001, Phil Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > There does not seem to be an option in configure to get rsync 2.5.0 | > to link libz as a shared library. Is there any way to do this? | | rsync uses a modifie

linking rsync-2.5.0 to libz.so

2001-12-01 Thread Phil Howard
There does not seem to be an option in configure to get rsync 2.5.0 to link libz as a shared library. Is there any way to do this? -- - | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas

Re: Why does one of there work and the other doesn't

2001-12-01 Thread Phil Howard
ps a trailing "/" instead of training "/." is supposed to work. I do not remember why I didn't start using it, but I am sure I would have tried it, so maybe I encountered that problem. But "/." on the end works for me and is what I have been using in all my

Re: rsync and SSL

2001-09-14 Thread Phil Howard
ng others to do so. So far it looks like there is nothing like that. -- ----- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

rsync and SSL

2001-09-13 Thread Phil Howard
ither anonymous or authenticated, but without granting any SSH access to anyone (e.g. the rsync "users" won't be in the /etc/passwd user space). -- ----- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/

rsync transfers of data from Windows to Unix

2001-09-13 Thread Phil Howard
ce it is more of a syncronization kind of thing anyway. -- ----- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

Re: any news about rsync and acl's?

2001-07-13 Thread Phil Howard
this gets cut into stone. ACLs that are extra files are trivial to do between like machines. ACLs that are metadata are not trivial even on like machines. It gets to be a mess out there when implementations preceed standards. --

Re: Two issues (rsync 2.4.6)

2001-07-13 Thread Phil Howard
lso as far as I can tell, the transfer appears to > work... but this seems like something that might be serious. Is this via RSH/SSH or the rsyncd port? This could be related to #1. -- - | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

Re: Anti-hang comments?

2001-07-05 Thread Phil Howard
Dave Dykstra wrote: > You shouldn't have to have it be in the foreground in order for strace -f You're right, I was not aware of that option. And I thought I knew my way around strace. Here's what strace shows me: [pid 14576] open("/tmp/rsyncd.lock", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|0x8000, 0600) = 4 [pid 1457

Re: Anti-hang comments?

2001-07-04 Thread Phil Howard
ync in daemon mode AND leave it in the foreground so I can run it via strace and maybe see if the syscall is being done right. -- - | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

lingering rsync daemons

2001-06-28 Thread Phil Howard
se it). -- ----- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

@ERROR: max connections (16) reached - try again later

2001-06-07 Thread Phil Howard
it up. -- ----- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

Re: too many files

2001-06-07 Thread Phil Howard
s (assuming you are running rsync > > on the > > receiving end): > > > > for dir in $root/$dir; do > >if [ -d $dir ]; then > > rsync -a from:$root/$dir/ $root/$dir > >fi > > > > rsync -a from:$root/ $root > > > > > > hope that helps, > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > -- - | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

too many files

2001-06-06 Thread Phil Howard
aning I am going to have to manually handle this about 2 or 3 times a week. It should be an automated thing that just does the right thing itself. -- ----- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTE

option --delete won't delete lame symlinks

2001-06-01 Thread Phil Howard
speedup is 2086.90 = -- ----- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

Re: unexpected EOF in read_timeout

2001-05-29 Thread Phil Howard
s back, like: while ! rsync ; do echo "oops, let's try that again"; done -- - | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

Re: unexpected EOF in read_timeout

2001-05-29 Thread Phil Howard
through ssh? -- - | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

Re: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-29 Thread Phil Howard
t option and it had no effect, not even on the usual download syncronizing over a dialup that I do. I could not get it to pace the rate below the dialup speed no matter what I would specify. -- ----- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dalla

Re: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread Phil Howard
from one directory to another, rsync would detect a new file with the same checksum as an existing (potentially to be deleted) file, and copy, move, or link, as appropriate. In theory this should apply to anything anywhere in the whole file tree being processed. -- --

Re: problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread Phil Howard
help for you to run some > straces. I would have presumed since there was a daemon process running (as opposed to running from inetd) that the daemon itself could simply track the connection count. One possibility here is that I do have /var/run symlinked to /ram/run which is on a ramdisk. So the lock file is there. The file is there but it is empty. Should it have data in it? BTW, it was in ramdisk in 2.4.4 and this max connections problem did not exist, so if there is a ramdisk sensitivity, it's new since 2.4.4. -- - | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -

problems encountered in 2.4.6

2001-05-25 Thread Phil Howard
td). So it seems like it counts clients wrong. But I can't get more that 1 right after restarting the server, so it's a little more than that somewhere. === -- ---