--exclude-from and a directory name that contains a hyphen

2010-04-22 Thread Wolter, John D. (GRC-RTE0)
I'm having a problem with an exclude list and I wanted to run it by the group before I cry Bug!. Here's the scenario: I'm working on a script to selectively synchronize several directories with those on a server using rsync (version 3.0.5 protocol version 30). I am using the --exclude-from

on remote machine: --remove-source-files: unknown option

2010-04-22 Thread N. Yaakov Ziskind
I'm trying to sync from 3.0.5 to 2.5.5 (SCO, *sigh*) The source machine errors out b/c the --remove-source-files (or --remove-sent-files) options don't exist on 2.5.5. But, since these option are only acted on by the sending machine (which is where I'm typing the command line), it would be so

Odd behavior

2010-04-22 Thread Erich Weiler
Hi Y'all, I'm seeing some interesting behavior that I was hoping someone could shed some light on. Basically I'm trying to rsync a lot of files, in a series of about 60 rsyncs, from one server to another. There are about 160 million files. I'm running 3 rsyncs concurrently to increase the

Re: on remote machine: --remove-source-files: unknown option

2010-04-22 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 12:53 -0400, N. Yaakov Ziskind wrote: I'm trying to sync from 3.0.5 to 2.5.5 (SCO, *sigh*) The source machine errors out b/c the --remove-source-files (or --remove-sent-files) options don't exist on 2.5.5. But, since these option are only acted on by the sending

Re: Odd behavior

2010-04-22 Thread Erich Weiler
Well, I solved this problem myself, it seems. It was not an rsync problem, per se, but it's interesting anyway on big filesystems like this so I'll outline what went down: Because my rsyncs were mostly just statting millions of files very quickly, RAM filled up with inode cache. At a

Re: Odd behavior

2010-04-22 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Erich Weiler wrote: Well, I solved this problem myself, it seems. It was not an rsync problem, per se, but it's interesting anyway on big filesystems like this so I'll outline what went down: Because my rsyncs were mostly just statting millions of files very

where is 'rsync-mirroring.html'?

2010-04-22 Thread Matt Wilkie
Hello, The features page at http://rsync.samba.org/features.html has a link titled anonymous rsync which leads to a dead site, http://sunsite.auc.dk/SunSITE/rsync/rsync-mirroring.html where is the document now? thanks, -- -matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the

rysnc failure

2010-04-22 Thread mm_half3
Hello, I have been using rsync to sync data from 1 ftp server to a backup ftp server. Both servers are Solaris 10 X86, and the file systems being synced are a few hundred zfs user data file-systems under the parent/root ftp area. I noticed an unexpected problem in the sync log files, one of