Static server side listing

2011-12-21 Thread Mark Constable
I've looking for a solution for this and no amount of googling has come up with anything. Is it possible to provide a static listing on a server, say every 24 hours, that a standard end-user rsync can pull and use? I have a lot of files to provide and the idea of every request dynamically

Re: Static server side listing

2011-12-21 Thread Mark Constable
On 22/12/11 14:44, Kevin Korb wrote: Is it possible to provide a static listing on a server, say every 24 hours, that a standard end-user rsync can pull and use? Sounds like a job for a snapshot. If you are on Linux that would be an lvm2 snapshot. Other operating systems with basic volume

Re: Static server side listing

2011-12-21 Thread Mark Constable
On 22/12/11 14:59, Kevin Korb wrote: Is it possible to provide a static listing on a server, say every 24 hours, that a standard end-user rsync can pull and use? Sounds like a job for a snapshot. If you are on Linux that would be an lvm2 snapshot. Other operating systems with basic volume

Re: keep 2 dirs in sync

2011-07-02 Thread Mark Constable
On 2011-07-01 09:40 PM, Chris Dennis wrote: I have two hosts (my portable and my desktop). I work on both hosts at different times and so I keep a few dirs sync'd between the two. I have a docs dir where I may be modifying files, adding files, renaming files and deleting files on

Re: rsync sleep

2010-06-06 Thread Mark Constable
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 4:07:22 am Mag Gam wrote: Is it possible to sleep 1 second after each file is rsynced? Interesting idea but not that I know of. Ofcourse, I can put this in a for loop and do a sleep after each file is done, I was wondering if there was anything native in rsync for this

Re: rsync sleep

2010-06-06 Thread Mark Constable
On 2010-06-07, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: Is it possible to sleep 1 second after each file is rsynced? If you are concerned about giving the rest of the system some time to breathe then just nice the rsync process. nice -n 19 rsync ... etc This would not help, regarding i/o. Care

Re: rsync sleep

2010-06-06 Thread Mark Constable
On 2010-06-07, Mag Gam wrote: I am more concerned with write penalty. We use netApps, and if there is a huge write (10gb file) i would like to give the filer to recover before I can start syncing more data. Perhaps as Eberhard suggested, ionice might be useful and is part of the util-linux-ng

rsync via restricted ssh command=

2010-06-03 Thread Mark Constable
I've read a few tutorials about how to use rsync via ssh using the command= functionality to restrict where the user can sync to. I've got this on the on the destination side in it's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys... command=rsync --server -vvnlogDtpre.iLsf --timeout=999 .

Re: rsync via restricted ssh command=

2010-06-03 Thread Mark Constable
On 2010-06-04, Matt McCutchen wrote: I've read a few tutorials about how to use rsync via ssh using the command= functionality to restrict where the user can sync to. ... or (my preference) use a single-use rsync daemon. See: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4163 I didn't know