rsync error messages always in English (= never translated)?

2023-12-15 Thread rsync--- via rsync
I want to recognize and handle some rsync error messages in my log files (containing also the --itemize-changes output) on different computers with different language/locale settings. Can I rely on rsync to create only English error messages to have a stable pattern to recognize? PS: In the

Re: rsync exit code 23 (partial transfer due to errors): List of possible reasons and how to ignore some?

2023-12-14 Thread rsync--- via rsync
On Thu, 2023-12-14 at 14:09 -0500, Kevin Korb wrote: > Unfortunately, exit 23 litterally just means something else went wrong > and might have scrolled off of the screen if you have rsync listing > files (--verbose or --itemize_changes). Essentially, it is anything > that doesn't have its own

rsync exit code 23 (partial transfer due to errors): List of possible reasons and how to ignore some?

2023-12-14 Thread rsync--- via rsync
I am trying to find a solution for the open source Linux software "Back In Time" (https://github.com/bit-team/backintime) where we evaluate the rsync exit code when taking a backup via rsync and inform the user that an error has occured. Questions: 1. Is there full list of possible reasons

Re: rsync --delete with empty source folder for fast snapshot deletion: Permissions of hardlinked files are changed to 644. Workaround?

2023-09-22 Thread rsync--- via rsync
Here is the missing attachment ;-) On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 21:01 +0200, rsync--- via rsync wrote: > On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 07:37 -0400, Kevin Korb wrote: > > So I decided to do a quick test using the Linux kernel source tree since > > it has lots of files. > > Excellent idea

Re: rsync --delete with empty source folder for fast snapshot deletion: Permissions of hardlinked files are changed to 644. Workaround?

2023-09-22 Thread rsync--- via rsync
On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 07:37 -0400, Kevin Korb wrote: > So I decided to do a quick test using the Linux kernel source tree since > it has lots of files. Excellent idea using kernel sources! A lot of different files... I will use this to create indicative benchmarks for different scenarios... >  

Re: rsync --delete with empty source folder for fast snapshot deletion: Permissions of hardlinked files are changed to 644. Workaround?

2023-09-22 Thread rsync--- via rsync
On Thu, 2023-09-21 at 20:08 -0400, Kevin Korb via rsync wrote: > I have heard in the past that rsyncing an empty dir over a tree to > delete the tree is faster than an rm -rf but I can't say I have ever > benchmarked it to get any actual numbers. This **may** indeed be a myth (for a long time

rsync --delete with empty source folder for fast snapshot deletion: Permissions of hardlinked files are changed to 644. Workaround?

2023-09-18 Thread rsync--- via rsync
Context --- I am one of the active developers of the open source application "Back in Time" which uses "rsync" as backend and I want to fix an open issue: "Back in Time"-Bug: https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/994#issuecomment-1724211507 "Back in Time" uses "--link-dest"

Re: Encrypt destination file

2020-03-09 Thread rsync--- via rsync
Rainy Days via rsync wrote: > Hi, > > My company have been using rsync to sync our file to a backup server (running > rsync daemon), and now we would like to store them encrypted. > I found some thread that discussed this issue but they are pretty old (about > 10 years ago). So I send this

Re: rsync many processes and slow backup

2019-07-12 Thread rsync--- via rsync
Hallo Hannes "man 5 crontab" is your friend ;-) Am 12.07.2019 um 10:56 schrieb Hannes Hutmacher via rsync: But, when I add the script in cron to start it at 1am at night it takes 7 - 9 hours and I see up to 180 processes. When I look in top I see a hight load of 60 - 80 and 40 - 60 waits.