Re: [Bug 7120] Variable bandwidth limit .. bwlimit

2017-03-18 Thread L A Walsh via rsync
samba-b...@samba.org wrote: --snipp-- It seems that pv is waiting for data from rsync, and rsync is waiting for data too (stuck in select()) and not closing the input to pv. So it's a deadlock. Same happens when you substitute pv with something else (like dd). It seems that those commands just

Re: [Bug 12732] New: hard links can cause rsync to block or to silently skip files

2017-04-05 Thread L A Walsh via rsync
just subscribed for rsync-qa from bugzilla via rsync wrote: Hard link handling seems to be broken when using "rsync -aH --compare-dest". I found two possible scenarios: 1) rsync completes without error message and exit code 0, although some files are missing from the backup 2) rsync blocks and

Re: Why are system-namespaces not copied?

2018-10-12 Thread L A Walsh via rsync
On 9/18/2018 7:44 AM, Frank Steiner via rsync wrote: Hi, the man page states For systems that support extended-attribute namespaces, a copy being done by a super-user copies all namespaces except system.*. That's the reason why NFAv4 ACLs are not copied as they are in the

Re: [Bug 13582] New: rsync filters containing multiple adjacent slashes aren't reduced to just one slash before matching

2018-10-12 Thread L A Walsh via rsync
On 8/19/2018 10:11 PM, just subscribed for rsync-qa from bugzilla via rsync wrote: The following test script shows that attempting to exclude the file /sourcedir/a/file2 by using //sourcedir//a//file2 in the excluded files list, will silently not exclude it because of all those adjacent

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

2018-10-12 Thread L A Walsh via rsync
On 10/11/2018 10:51 AM, just subscribed for rsync-qa from bugzilla via rsync wrote: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5124 --- Comment #7 from Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca --- I also vote for this feature. Using multiple connections, rsync can use multiples internet connections at the

Re: rsync xattr support doesn't play nice with selinux

2018-10-12 Thread L A Walsh via rsync
On 8/22/2018 2:09 PM, Shaya Potter via rsync wrote: If one is rsyncing a machine without selinux (therefore no security.selinux xattr on each file), to a system that has selinux (even in permissive mode), rsync doesn't play nice. basically selinux seems to make it appear that every file

Re: [Bug 13645] New: Improve efficiency when resuming transfer of large files

2018-10-12 Thread L A Walsh via rsync
If you are doing a local<-> local transfer, you are wasting time with checksums. You'll get faster performance with "--whole-file". Why do you stop it at night when you could 'unlimit' the transfer speed? Seems like when you aren't there would be best time to copy everything. Doing checksums

hardlinking missing files from src to a dest: didn't work way I thought it would.

2019-11-14 Thread L A Walsh via rsync
Have a directory with a bunch rpms in it, mostly x86_64. Have another directory with a bunch, mostly 'noarch'. Some of the noarch files are already in the x86_64 dir and don't want to overwrite them. They are on the same physical disk, so really, just want the new 'noarch' files hardlinked into

Question about rsync -uav dir1/. dir2/.: possib to link?

2021-09-04 Thread L A Walsh via rsync
I noticed in looking at download dirs for a project, that another mirror had "crept-in" for usage (where different mirrors are stored under mirror-URL names). To copy over the diffs, normally I'd do: rsync -uav dir1/. dir2/. (where dir1="the new mirror that I'd switched to by accident, and

Re: How to manage root<-->root rsync keeping permissions?

2021-08-07 Thread L A Walsh via rsync
On 2021/08/03 07:09, Chris Green via rsync wrote: I already have an rsync daemon server running elsewhere, I can add this requirement to that I think. Thank you. It seems to me, a safer bet would be to generate an ssh-cert that allows a passwdless login from your sys to the remote.

Re: How to manage root<-->root rsync keeping permissions?

2021-08-07 Thread L A Walsh via rsync
On 2021/08/07 03:44, Chris Green via rsync wrote: L A Walsh via rsync wrote: It seems to me, a safer bet would be to generate an ssh-cert that allows a passwdless login from your sys to the remote. The trouble with that is that it leaves a big security hole. If you only

Re: How to manage root<-->root rsync keeping permissions?

2021-08-07 Thread L A Walsh via rsync
On 2021/08/07 08:45, Chris Green via rsync wrote: Because cron/anacron isn't perfect and the machine being backed up nay not be turned on all the time so the time that it tries to backup is most definitely not fixed accurately! My *backups* of important data are incremental