Re: Incremental file updates over a network, NFS?

2008-03-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, ok so basically that would (invoke with SETUID) be to invoke rsync daemon as root for example? More or less I have to run the daemon as root to be able to update files for all users dont I? For example if I want to rsync the homedirs area, I have to run the deamon as root or run a

Re: Suggestions for basic rsync configuration

2008-03-17 Thread Peter Heiss
 Matt McCutchen-7 wrote: OK, let's be clear here. If you want to start a daemon to accept connections, the command is rsync --daemon; pass a --config=FILE option if you want to use a configuration file other than the default /etc/rsyncd.conf . If you want to access an rsync daemon, put a

Re: Suggestions for basic rsync configuration

2008-03-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 05:58 -0700, Peter Heiss wrote: Although, I am still having problems with the daemon on the remote server. I ran the command rsync --daemon on the remote server, no error there. But then I ran the following error to do a test backup and received this error: # rsync

Re: Suggestions for basic rsync configuration

2008-03-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 05:58 -0700, Peter Heiss wrote: hosts allow = trusted.hosts BTW, the hosts allow field needs to contain the actual list of trusted hosts, not the name of a file holding the list. Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync

Re: Incremental file updates over a network, NFS?

2008-03-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 12:24 +0100, Andy Smith wrote: ok so basically that would (invoke with SETUID) be to invoke rsync daemon as root for example? More or less I have to run the daemon as root to be able to update files for all users dont I? For example if I want to rsync the homedirs

rsync Windows UNC

2008-03-17 Thread Kalb Stefan
Hello, I try to backup files from a NAS to our backup-server using rsync. The NAS itself is not able to run rsync. Therefore I installed rsyncd (cwrsync 2.1.1) on a windowsserver which has access to the NAS. I configured the rsyncd like this: [nspPR53_so2] path =

Re: rsync Windows UNC

2008-03-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 15:57 +0100, Kalb Stefan wrote: I try to backup files from a NAS to our backup-server using rsync. The NAS itself is not able to run rsync. Therefore I installed rsyncd (cwrsync 2.1.1) on a windowsserver which has access to the NAS. I configured the rsyncd like this:

[PATCH] Fix typo in rsyncd.conf man page.

2008-03-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
--- rsyncd.conf.yo |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/rsyncd.conf.yo b/rsyncd.conf.yo index f365333..f17e3d5 100644 --- a/rsyncd.conf.yo +++ b/rsyncd.conf.yo @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ tt(fe80::%link1/:::::)nl() ) You can also combine hosts

Re: --ignore-existing not as expected

2008-03-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 17:14 -0500, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:19 +0100, Lasse Kliemann wrote: Is this correct behavior? File `foo' gets overwritten with directory `foo', even though --ignore-existing is given. I had never thought about this case, but probably

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5299] 2.6.9 client cannot receive files from 3.0.0 server

2008-03-17 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5299 --- Comment #4 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-03-17 11:15 CST --- I'm still working on coming up with a set of files that I can share with you that will reproduce the problem. So far I have only seen this happen with my VMware files for my

Re: Incremental file updates over a network, NFS?

2008-03-17 Thread Andy Smith
Ok thanks for that! I've tried implementing this but Im getting a nasty issue, rsync is core dumping on the recieving server (the daemon side). Im running this command: /usr/local/bin/rsync -vv -r -e ssh -vv -l rsync -i /usr/home/rsync/.ssh/id_dsa /usr/home/rsync/rra/ bkupsrv::confidential

Re: Incremental file updates over a network, NFS?

2008-03-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 17:48 +0100, Andy Smith wrote: I've tried implementing this but Im getting a nasty issue, rsync is core dumping on the recieving server (the daemon side). Alas, there's a bug in rsync 3.0.0: a daemon crashes unless it is given an explicit --config=FILE option. Either

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5287] FreeBSD pre10 compilation warnings report

2008-03-17 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5287 --- Comment #2 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-03-17 12:00 CST --- As I alluded to in my prior comment, I did some work to silence the unused parameter warnings. They should be gone on any compiler that supports the -Wno-unused-parameter

Re: Incremental file updates over a network, NFS?

2008-03-17 Thread Andy Smith
Great thnx! No prob to reinstate the forced command in authorized_keys with explicit conf= Ooof, hurt my head working out that I had to put use chroot = no if Im not using root! lol But at last its all working!! Thanks alot for all the assistance!! Once last point, does it make any difference

Re: Incremental file updates over a network, NFS?

2008-03-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 18:33 +0100, Andy Smith wrote: Once last point, does it make any difference if I push or pull from the server side? Im thinking the only important thing is if you pull you can set the server side read-only which is better for security, that about right?? Yes, that's

Re: AW: rsync Windows UNC

2008-03-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
Stefan, Please keep this on the list (CC rsync@lists.samba.org ). On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 17:33 +0100, Kalb Stefan wrote: I corrected the path to: [nspPR53_so2] path = //172.21.87.9/nspPR53_so/material/doc read only = true transfer logging = yes But no success. Error message remains the

Re: Incremental file updates over a network, NFS?

2008-03-17 Thread Andy Smith
Ok, well really thanks for being so helpful! All working now! For the record Im transfering 2Gb of RRD DB files and with rsync daemon over ssh I've cut sync times by about half and the speedup value I have is about 80. Not bad but I think I have a disk IO bottleneck preventing it being

[PATCH] Attempt to rewrite the description of the filter parameters in rsyncd.conf.yo.

2008-03-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
- Collect material that applies to all daemon filters in the documentation of the filter parameter, and make it more complete and coherent. - Amplify the recommendation to exclude entire subtrees properly since the excluded_below check is easy to circumvent and I have proposed removing it

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4561] Add options --tweak, --no-tweak, --no-tweak-hlinked

2008-03-17 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4561 --- Comment #4 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-03-17 22:14 CST --- I have posted a revised version of the patch that covers non-regular files and has slightly improved documentation in branch tweak-opts of my repository at:

[SCM] rsync branch, master, updated. v3.0.0-47-gaa0e6b9

2008-03-17 Thread Wayne Davison
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[SCM] rsync branch, master, updated. v3.0.0-48-gdf476bf

2008-03-17 Thread Matt McCutchen
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[SCM] rsync branch, master, updated. v3.0.0-49-gd4c5cb2

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