Re: Rsyncd and Environmental Paths

2009-03-17 Thread lewis butler
On 16-Mar-2009, at 14:43, Jerome Hollon wrote: I have this in my rsync.conf [backup] path = /home/$USER/backup use chroot = no monge symlinks = no uid = wendell gid = wendell read only = no list = yes auth users = wendell secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets But rsync

Bugs list?

2009-03-13 Thread lewis butler
Is there a way to be subscribed to this list and NOT get the posts from samba-b...@samba.org? According to https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/rsync/lbutler+rs...@covisp.net I am only subscribed to this list. -- The Steve is seen, rightly or wrongly, as the visionary, the

Re: proposal to speed rsync with lots of files

2009-03-05 Thread lewis butler
On 5-Mar-2009, at 16:27, Peter Salameh wrote: One of the speed-limiting issues with rsync is having to send huge file lists when mirroring large file systems, even for incremental updates where only a small part of the file system might have changed. My proposal is to first send a checksum

Re: Converting file system

2009-03-04 Thread lewis butler
On 4-Mar-2009, at 06:45, Paul Slootman wrote: On Wed 04 Mar 2009, David de Lama wrote: I tested what happens with a file which is saved at a FAT32 partition and then this partition is converted to NTFS. So first I transfered the file with rsync from the FAT32 partition to my Linux /home

Re: How to speed up rsync when haveing lots of files

2009-03-03 Thread lewis butler
On 3-Mar-2009, at 20:33, Daniel.Li wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 08:58 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: On 3/3/2009 8:52 AM, m...@bortal.de wrote: unfortunatelly rsync is beeing REALLY slow and produces a high load when we try to sync lots of files (250 000 small files). What version of rsync

Re: rsycing very small files

2009-02-28 Thread lewis butler
On 27-Feb-2009, at 21:16, Daniel.Li wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 08:20 -0500, Mag Gam wrote: it works. But takes hours to do it. Was wondering if there was a faster way How much speed do u get to backup these files? Average? I would thing that rsync 3.x would make a large difference on

Re: rsync incremental backup

2009-02-23 Thread lewis butler
On 23-Feb-2009, at 01:27, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: Presently I have the latest full backup in a 'current' directory and 30 day incrementals in '-MM-DD' format directories. Without changing that directory structure I'd like the '-DD-MM' directories to contain the full system

Re: --password-file

2009-02-16 Thread lewis butler
On 16-Feb-2009, at 01:18, Wayne Davison wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 05:08:36AM -0700, lewis butler wrote: This tells everyone the exact length of each password The docs should actually say that everything after the first line of the file is ignored. So, feel free to add any text you like

--password-file

2009-02-15 Thread lewis butler
The man page says: --password-file This option allows you to provide a password in a file for accessing an rsync daemon. The file must not be world readable. It should contain just the password as a single line. The trouble with this

--link-dest=server::location/folder

2009-02-11 Thread lewis butler
I'm wondering if I can use link-dest to compare rsync to a remote directory. rsync -aCHh --stats --link-dest=akane::backup/ranma.daily.1 / myserver::akane/ranma.daily.0 Something like that? Is it going to work like it does when doing a local rsync with a local link-dest directory? Is

Re: --link-dest=server::location/folder

2009-02-11 Thread lewis butler
On 11-Feb-2009, at 14:44, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 14:12 -0700, lewis butler wrote: rsync -aCHh --stats --link-dest=akane::backup/ranma.daily.1 / myserver::akane/ranma.daily.0 rsync -aCHh --stats --link-dest=../ranma.daily.1 \ / myserver::akane/ranma.daily.0

Re: rsync compression (-z) and timestamp

2009-01-27 Thread lewis butler
On 27-Jan-2009, at 06:49, Paul Slootman wrote: On Tue 27 Jan 2009, Paul Slootman wrote: No, the data over the wire is compressed with the -z option; not the file. Correction: more specifically, the data between the sender and the receiver processes is compressed. Unfortunately this also

Re: Chance of equal checksum and changing blocks

2009-01-22 Thread lewis butler
On 22-Jan-2009, at 02:43, David de Lama wrote: Hi @all! I have two questions: - First, am I right that the chance of getting the same 32-bit rolling checksum is 1/2^16 Depends on the algorithm. Most 32bit algorithms are not really 1: (2^16)-1 and to get the same 128-bit MD5 Hash is

Re: Win32 GUI Client

2008-12-05 Thread lewis butler
On 4-Dec-2008, at 18:12, Ansar Mohammed wrote: Tried that but its hardcoded to use the rsync.net servers. Reading the page linked, it appears that the remote server is a SETTING: URL should be the address of your rsync.net storage system - this was indicated in your original welcome email.

Re: --link-dest but only if rsync detects differences

2008-11-15 Thread lewis butler
On 13-Nov-2008, at 14:17, Daniel Jarboe wrote: I'm currently using rsync and --link-dest to give me something like a poor-man's incremental snapshot to disk. But I really only want to generate a new backup if rsync detects differences, otherwise I don't need a new backup. But with

synced files are linked to originals?

2008-07-28 Thread lewis butler
I'm very confused. I ran this command: /usr/local/bin/rsync -aCHh --stats --delete-after --delete-excluded \ --exclude=/backup/ --exclude-from=/var/.rexcludes \ / /backup/daily.0 then I ran these commands mail ~ $ ls -ls etc/postfix/main.cf 28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 28322 Jul 27

Re: synced files are linked to originals?

2008-07-28 Thread lewis butler
On 28-Jul-2008, at 08:03, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 12:33 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote: lewis butler wrote: ... mail ~ $ ls -ls etc/postfix/main.cf 28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 28322 Jul 27 16:31 /etc/postfix/ main.cf mail ~ $ ls -ls /backup/daily.0/etc/postfix/main.cf 28 -rw

Re: synced files are linked to originals?

2008-07-28 Thread lewis butler
On 28-Jul-2008, at 11:49, Matt McCutchen wrote: ah... well, that would be ugly How so? Well, there's a lot of them, for one; scattered about the drive in various places, for two. You just have to put the appropriate number of ../ in front. symlinks -c will even do this for you.

Re: How to exclude directories from source with --relative

2008-05-30 Thread lewis butler
On 28-May-2008, at 05:28, David Favor wrote: /usr/bin/rsync -av --delete --exclude '/src/***' why all the *? -exclude=src/ is what I've used in the past /src/ would imply that src is at the root of your system, which seem unlikely. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid

Some files vanished...

2008-05-18 Thread lewis butler
I run an rsync to backup my mail server ever 4 hours. Sometimes, I get these sorts of warnings: Rsyncing... file has vanished: /usr/local/virtual/*munged1*/new/ 1210876129.43402_0.mail.server.tld file has vanished: /usr/local/virtual/*munged2*/courierimapkeywords/.