Re: issues with NT port?

apps work fine over this link - maybe I should say "NT-specific rsync bug" :-)] -- Cheers Jason Haar Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417

Can rsync do this?

t-of-whack and calls it corruption... Can rsync copy the files over to a temp dir, and then move them live as one move? I know I could do this with ssh directly, but the "--compare-dest" and "--partial" options make me wonder if rsync can do this itself... Is it possible? -- C

Re: rsync problems with .iso files

definitely be a download-from-scratch repair... -- Cheers Jason Haar Unix/Special Projects, Trimble NZ Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417

Prefs for rsync of ssh or stunnel?

SSL transport layer with nothing else to worry about, whereas sshd implies accounts with password/access management,etc,etc. -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417

Re: rsync default handling of permissions

ensuring the permissions are always set to that value (setting the umask before starting rsync doesn't do the same thing, as this should be settable at the module level). At the moment doesn't there seem to be a bit too much relying on the client to do the right thing? -- Cheers Jason Haar

Re: Keep one BIG file in sync

$ Windows - this just won't be possible BTW - ever hear of locking? ;-)] -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read

Re: Keep one BIG file in sync

... BTW: if this is an Exchange server being talked about, NEVER, EVER, TOUCH AN EXCHANGE DATABASE WHEN IT'S RUNNING. You *will* crash it. I know: I did :-) [Apparently it's a feature...] -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3

Here's a Redhat .spec file for 2.5.4

The rsync.spec file within the rsync tar package is still broken, so here's a working rsync.spec file. Simply (as root) copy rsync-2.5.4.tar.gz into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES then run rpm -ba rsync.spec to produce rsync-2.5.4-1.i386.rpm -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager

Re: Future RSYNC enhancement/improvement suggestions

] 5 rsync transmits files ...etc That would send a little bit more network traffic, but will it take up less total dialup time? I don't know... [guess it's time for a DJB saying: don't speculate - evaluate!] -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3

Re: Largest file system being synced

of RAID'ed-NBD, CODA or Intermezzo for a similar effect? The NBD (network block device) looks interesting, it allows you to mount a remote raw partition - so you can effectively RAID over the network. Supports transaction logs too (which would be necessary in a rsync-style role) -- Cheers Jason Haar

Re: Smoother bandwidth limiting

with it, then THEY can do network rate-limiting :-) Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman

Re: Feature request: case insensitivity

), the drivers make all filenames uppercase, whereas on others (linux, mac) all the filenames are lowercase. What's wrong with using check=relaxed when mounting the fat partition? Doesn't that help (see man mount) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64

Re: open files

client... -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read

Re: Win32 and Backing up open files

they are in use. Whether that's a good idea I leave for others to discover the hard way... ;-) Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- To unsubscribe or change

How do you properly use --partial?

that any partially transmitted file could be kept in a dir separate from the real data, and when the transfer successfully finishes, renamed/copied into the live area... Am I missing something obvious here? -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3

Re: trigger command on successful upload?

Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org

Re: rsycnc copies all files

really have that massive an impact for rsync-over-WAN? BTW: what would be the best way of running rsync for such an environment? We currently just do rsync -az src_dir/ remote::xxx/dst_dir -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3

Re: Rsync Performance

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:33:21PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 02:15:04PM +1200, Jason Haar wrote: is there any intention of a new improved --partial option whereby any failed uploads are kept as temp files I had been contemplating whether we need a new option

Re: Copying Oracle data files

Tauya Mhangami wrote: Can I copy an Oracle database by just copying that Oracle Database datafiles and moving them to another server with oracle? If possible can one back up a database using this same method. Why don't you try it and see? I don't think it'll work reliably. As you are running

increasing throughput over slow-but-fat WAN links?

, then splitting into X separate jobs? Even a rough guess at it could make a difference. -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- To unsubscribe or change

Re: mirror combined with 7 day incremental backup

There's also rsnapshot. Defaults to hourly and 7-day rolling backups, using hard-links to save diskspace (i.e. if files haven't changed from one run to the next). Saves a tonne of diskspace :-) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax

Re: request: add TCP buffer options to rsync CLI?

Lawrence D. Dunn wrote: Renater was using rsync to pull large amounts of data from FermiLab across a fast, long link, and was getting poor throughput (~20mbits/sec). Man - I wish I had your problem ;-) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone

Re: request: add TCP buffer options to rsync CLI?

in our high speed, high latency environment? Thanks! -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org

sctp support for rsync?

have fat pipes and yet a single rsync session cannot saturate it due to the latency. I'm wondering if SCTP could help? (I'm guessing it would as running multiple copies of rsync in parallel also fixes our problem) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone

Re: sctp support for rsync?

- because that means users and apps (such as rsync) would experience better throughput. -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- To unsubscribe

rsync -z not working as expected under 2.6.8 and 2.6.9?

anything regarding the filenames. So is there some smoke-n-mirrors going on in there? Why did the client compress data.gz - even though it was mentioned on the server as dont compress? Enquiring minds would like to know :-) Thanks! -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble

Re: rsync -z not working as expected under 2.6.8 and 2.6.9?

Wayne Davison wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 01:08:54PM +1300, Jason Haar wrote: Looks like rsync decided to compress data.gz even though /etc/rsyncd.conf had *.gz in it's dont compress section... That setting only affects files being pulled from an rsync daemon, not pushed to one

text file busy on cifs-mounted dir *doesn't* cause rsync error!

- but the final rename on top of the original file failed. Rsync didn't return an error. It should? Help? Is this a bug with rsync, or with Samba (perhaps it returned OK on the rename when it shouldn't have?) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3

Re: text file busy on cifs-mounted dir *doesn't* cause rsync error!

Wayne Davison wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:28:56PM +1300, Jason Haar wrote: bash$ rsync /tmp/other.txt file.doc bash$ echo $? 0 Re-run the same command under strace: strace rsync -av /tmp/other.txt file.doc Too late - I bet you to it :-) I just replied to the rsync

Re: rsync not updating files even with checksum flag

present (on files only - you can ignore the ones on dirs), then rename the new files out to a staging dir - then rsync that instead. It guarantees the files have been finished, and even lets the Windows users know the files have been picked up (as they disappear) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information

cannot get fuse-ssh to operate from a batch script - but does from cmd line

. That works fine - it's only when called directly that it fails... -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- To unsubscribe or change options: https

Re: Reproducable failure with rsync, iptables and RHEL4

doesn't match your symptoms) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync

Re: rsync replacement

? If so, how would you manhandle rsync (a TCP app) to be able to use them? Any such thing as a TCP-to-SCTP proxy? -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1

Re: Which rsync version?

command is nearly compressed and so doesn't need it. However, in my totally unscientific test I just sniffed a transfer, extracted the file listing data, and compressed it with gzip. Knocked 66% off the size...) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3

Re: PST Rsync Issues

in them like it can in text files/etc. (hope there's nothing too incorrect in the above. I'm sure someone will shout at me if I'm wrong ;-) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6

is support for non-ASCII filenames in rsync complete?

to use the --iconv option (all this language-specific stuff gives me a headache ;-) Thanks -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- Please use reply-all

Re: is support for non-ASCII filenames in rsync complete?

random filenames I created and it's fine. But I certainly didn't do it for every language combination. There just seems to be enough historical noise around this issue that it was worth asking. -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64

Re: recent discussion regarding 'checksums'

;-) [sometimes more options isn't a good idea...] -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting

Re: rsync as a deliberately slow copy?

could try nice to lower the priority rsync runs at -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting

Re: rsync and encryption

: it allows our security group to use the server group infrastructure for backups/storage, without giving them access to the data... Jason -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F

Re: sync prob with big files

with one of the CIFS mounts? Jason -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing

Re: Low performance

did you try scp (although that could be CPU-bound due to crypto), ftp or wget - ie see how other TCP apps do the same job? If they all show the same speed - it's not an rsync problem -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3

Re: Cache file list in daemon mode?

against the gluster service? -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +1 408 481 8171 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change

Re: Is the --sparse option suitable for .dbf files

file copied somewhere by rsync NOT using the --sparse option be 100% equivalent to the original? -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +1 408 481 8171 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- Please use reply-all

Re: rsyncssl

: an enterprise competitor to all those cloudy services such as Dropbox/etc. :-) [well, probably need that VSS patch for rsync-win32 too ;-)] -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +1 408 481 8171 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1

Re: Announce: Tool for replicating filesystem changes

Hi there That looks very interesting, but can I make suggestion? Don't call it should. That simply means no-one will ever be able to find it using a search engine. :-) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +1 408 481 8171 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407

Re: Native Parallelization in rsync

in another country, and can never get more than (say) 5Mbs. Parallelizing the data transfer could easily push that up to 20-30Mbs ...and there is a competitor to rsync that does this - bbcp. Mirror a directory from hostA to hostB using 'N' tcp streams. Runs like the clappers :-) -- Cheers Jason Haar

Re: Native Parallelization in rsync

to be thought through. It would be nice to have the ability, but that doesn't mean everyone would use it all the time -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +1 408 481 8171 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- Please use reply

Re: [Bug 5124] Parallelize the rsync run using multiple threads and/or connections

for, and joins it all up at the other end I have tested rsync over a 100Mbs continental link and am lucky to get 10Mbs. Using bbcp with 4-6 channels, I can get 40-50Mbs (that's on a link with other real traffic on it - so it may have actually got 80-90Mbs byt itself for all I know) -- Cheers Jason Haar

rsync for windows doesn't like --rsh?

-- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +1 408 481 8171 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org

Re: rsync for windows doesn't like --rsh?

under Windows. (BTW it's openssl s_client - which acts as a I/O pipe. I have also tried socat - same problem) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +1 408 481 8171 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 -- Please use