Re: --link-dest not working with rsync daemon?

2004-01-26 Thread cbarratt
jw schultz writes: Soon, i hope. 2.6.1 is looking like a performance release. Can we get the craigb-perf patch in (sorry I haven't looked in CVS - maybe it is there)? Thanks to Wayne for porting the patch to 2.6.0. Craig -- To unsubscribe or change options:

Re: Cygwin hang-problem resolved

2004-01-22 Thread cbarratt
Mark Weaver writes: Not for me! I'm using cygwin-1.5.6-1, with rsync 2.5.7-2 (as reported by cygcheck -s). I've also tried with rsync-1.4.0 (as someone reported that worked), and rsync-2.6.0, both built from source. I get a 100% reliable hang after the first 0-128k of the first file.

Re: rsyncd bug for sym-links

2004-01-14 Thread cbarratt
Kirby Bakken writes: I'm 99% sure there is a bug in rsync when running in daemon mode on a 'remote' server. The bug is that when trying to rsync a sym-link, the daemon 'leg' of the code strips off the leading path separator (for linux, this would be a '/'). I have produced a 'fixed'

Re: Daemon-mode authentication documentation

2004-01-06 Thread cbarratt
Steve Schultze writes: I have found reference a couple of places on the web describing the details of authentication when rsync'ing with the server in daemon/non-shell mode. For example: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6508 rsync's authentication mechanism, available only

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2003-12-17 Thread cbarratt
jw schultz writes: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:18:15PM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, jw schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hard-link handling At the moment hardlink handling is very expensive, so it's off by default. It does not need to be so. Since

Re: Prepping for a new release (2.5.8? 2.6.0?)

2003-12-16 Thread cbarratt
jw schultz writes: I wish we had a better handle on the cygwin hang and craigb-perf but i don't want to slow things down. CVS is solid on *x now. As noted in the follow-up emails, it would be great if craigb-perf goes into CVS just after the next release. That will give it plenty of testing

Re: rsync / cygwin hanging problem

2003-11-28 Thread cbarratt
jw schultz writes: So anyway, I know the rsync sometimes hangs under cygwin problem has been acknowledged, but does anybody know anything about when it might be identified and resolved? As far as i can tell none of the people who know the rsync code use Windows with the possible

Re: rsync directory with symbolic links

2003-11-11 Thread cbarratt
Pirla writes: If a symlink is relative (like ../../file) the link is copied correctly If a symlink is absolute (like /root/document) the link is copied like (root/document) whithout the first slash. man rsyncd.conf: use chroot If use chroot is true, the rsync server will chroot

Re: Trouble with password (daemon mode)

2003-10-21 Thread cbarratt
Dennis Chelukanov writes: I running rsync in daemon mode (rsync --daemon) Everything seems to work well until I try to protect item with password. here is my /etc/rsyncd.conf : use chroot = yes max connections = 10 syslog facility = local5 [ftp] path = /var/ftp

Re: Transferring large files using rsync

2003-09-12 Thread cbarratt
jw schultz writes: On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:43:56PM -0500, Seann Herdejurgen wrote: [snip] Is there a way to tell rsync to update files in place and not create a temporary file? No. Nor can rsync be modified to do so. Is that true? I thought one could readily add an --inplace option

Re: Inadequate error checking in rsync 2.5.5

2003-08-15 Thread cbarratt
jw schultz writes: I've had a chance to think on it. Attached is a patch that allows unmap_file() to report the first read error that map_ptr found. The behaviour is the same. I doubt this will apply against anything but CVS HEAD as of now. This should probably use FERROR instead of

Re: rsync on Windows 2000?

2003-08-01 Thread cbarratt
John E. Malmberg writes: What is the status of rsync on Windows 2000? I was looking to install it on my test system, and the download directory has a readme file that says I need the cygnus gnu-win32 library. The link refers me to the index page for cygnus, with no way to get to a

Re: compression and encryption

2003-07-29 Thread cbarratt
I've been thinking about adding the capability to store files compressed and/or encrypted on either side of the rsync transfer. Let's say there's a storage space provider. I want to store my files on that server compressed (so I don't use more paid space than I need), and encrypted (so

Re: Cygwin Rsync 2.5.6 over SSH hangs on Win2k-Win2k

2003-06-26 Thread cbarratt
When using Cygwin Rsync 2.5.6/OpenSSH 3.6.1 for copying files from Win2k-Win2k, I get 2 or 3 hung processes on the receiving-side out of about every 50 runs. These hung processes cause the system to be unable to reboot(?!), requiring a hard reset. Killing the processes allows a graceful

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

2003-06-22 Thread cbarratt
I would like to specify an entry in /etc/rsyncd.conf such that it operates on a --one-file-system basis always. The path will point to a filesystem mount point, but there is another filesystem that is mounted in a subdirectory. I want to back up only those files in the pointed to

Re: rsync and cygwin

2003-06-07 Thread cbarratt
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 05:36:03PM -0500, Trey Nolen wrote: HmmThis backup server is handling backup jobs from about a dozen other machines -- all but three are Linux. The other three are Windows 2000 servers running Cygwin. Two of those are not working (giving the error). The backup

Re: MD4 checksum fix

2003-04-05 Thread cbarratt
I agree, they should be done together. I don't have my original patch but I can reimplement it with the correct remote_version dependence and send it in the next couple of days (by Thursday evening). My intent is the minimal set of changes, rather than changing the internals. That

Re: MD4 checksum fix

2003-04-05 Thread cbarratt
It looks like it will work OK, but it's kinda ugly in that starts embedding version stuff into the mdfour implementation. Still... its better than the nothing I've produced :-) Yes, it's certainly not elegant. An alternative would be to have two different sets of MD4 routines and then have

Re: MD4 checksum fix

2003-03-31 Thread cbarratt
I've not heard from you on the adaptive checksum length patch. I shall be committing it shortly subject to objections or further discussion. Sorry, I've been extremely busy (http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030326/265186_1.html). I've been following the discussion and the patch looks good. I would